The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 39

The first-born of these was beautiful beyond compare, whereat the Queen was so very glad, that those present were afraid that her excess of joy would do her harm.

Who acts: these, Queen, present, excess · What happens: bear, be, do, harm · To what, where: harm

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, Queen, present, excess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 born	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 born	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 first	punct
4	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 beautiful	case
6	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 beautiful	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 beautiful	cop
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 born	obl
9	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	10 compare	case
10	compare	compare	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beautiful	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 glad	punct
12	whereat	whereat	ADV	PronType=Int	18 glad	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Queen	det
14	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 glad	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 glad	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 glad	advmod
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 glad	advmod
18	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 beautiful	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 afraid	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 afraid	mark
21	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 present	det
22	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 afraid	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 afraid	cop
24	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 glad	advcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 do	mark
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 excess	nmod:poss
27	excess	excess	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 do	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 joy	case
29	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 excess	nmod
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 do	aux
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 afraid	ccomp
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 harm	nmod:poss
33	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 do	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 born	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bear	participle				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	these		beyond compare; beautiful property	tree rules
3	is	past	the Queen		glad, whereat property	tree rules
4	is	past	that present		afraid property	tree rules
5	do	would	queen's excess of joy	queen's harm		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality
6	harm		queen			nom harm «state transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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