The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 42

"Do not afflict yourself so much, Madam," said the Fairy; "your daughter shall have so great a portion of wit, that her want of beauty will scarcely be perceived."

Who acts: you, Fairy, daughter, queen · What happens: not afflict, say, have, perceive, want · To what, where: yourself, great portion, want, beauty · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, Fairy, daughter, queen), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 afflict	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 afflict	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 afflict	advmod
4	afflict	afflict	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 afflict	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	4 afflict	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Madam	punct
9	Madam	Madam	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Madam	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Madam	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afflict	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Fairy	det
14	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 daughter	nmod:poss
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 afflict	parataxis
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 great	advmod
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 portion	amod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 portion	det
24	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 wit	case
26	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 portion	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 perceived	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 perceived	mark
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 want	nmod:poss
30	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 perceived	nsubj:pass
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 beauty	case
32	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 want	nmod
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 perceived	aux
34	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	36 perceived	advmod
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 perceived	aux:pass
36	perceived	perceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 have	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 afflict	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 afflict	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not afflict in a quote	imperative · do-support	you not said here	yourself		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Fairy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	have in a quote	shall	your daughter	a great portion of wit		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Patient
4	perceive in a quote	future · passive		queen's want of beauty	scarcely property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
5	want in a quote		queen	beauty		nom want «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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