The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 40

The same Fairy, who had assisted at the birth of little Riquet with the Tuft, was here also; and, to moderate the Queen's gladness, she declared, that this little Princess should have no wit at all, but be as stupid as she was pretty.

Who acts: same Fairy, queen, little Princess · What happens: assist, be, moderate, declare, have · To what, where: birth, gladness, wit, all

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 (same Fairy, queen, little Princess), 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	3 Fairy	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Fairy	amod
3	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 here	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 assisted	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 assisted	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 assisted	aux
7	assisted	assist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 Fairy	acl:relcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 birth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 birth	det
10	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 assisted	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Riquet	case
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Riquet	amod
13	Riquet	riquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 birth	nmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 Tuft	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Tuft	det
16	Tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Riquet	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Fairy	punct
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 here	cop
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
20	also	also	ADV	_	19 here	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 moderate	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 moderate	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 moderate	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	25 moderate	mark
25	moderate	moderate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 here	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Queen	det
27	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 gladness	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 Queen	case
29	gladness	gladness	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 moderate	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 declared	punct
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 declared	nsubj
32	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 moderate	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 have	punct
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 have	mark
35	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 Princess	det
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Princess	amod
37	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 have	nsubj
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 have	aux
39	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 declared	conj
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 wit	det
41	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 have	obj
42	at	at	ADP	_	43 all	case
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 have	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 stupid	punct
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 stupid	cc
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 stupid	cop
47	as	as	ADV	_	48 stupid	advmod
48	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 moderate	conj
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 pretty	mark
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 pretty	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 pretty	cop
52	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	48 stupid	advcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	assist	past · perfect	the same Fairy		the birth of little Riquet with the Tuft		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the same Fairy			here property	tree rules
3	moderate	to-infinitive		the Queen's gladness			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gladness=Patient
4	declare speech: other	past	queen				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	have	should	this little Princess	no wit	all		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient
6	is	infinitive				stupid property	tree rules
7	is	past	queen			pretty property	tree rules

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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