The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 43

"God grant it," replied the Queen; "but is there no way to make the eldest, who is so pretty, have some little wit?"

Who acts: God, Queen, way · What happens: grant, reply, be, make, have · To what, where: portion, way, eldest, little wit · 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 (God, Queen, way), 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	_	3 grant	punct
2	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grant	nsubj
3	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 replied	ccomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grant	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grant	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 grant	punct
7	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 way	csubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Queen	det
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 replied	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 is	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 is	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 is	cc
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 way	cop
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 is	expl
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 make	mark
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 way	acl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 eldest	det
20	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 make	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pretty	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 pretty	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 pretty	cop
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 pretty	advmod
25	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 way	punct
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 wit	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wit	amod
30	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grant in a quote	infinitive	God	portion		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	reply speech: ask	past	the Queen			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present		no way		tree rules
4	make in a quote	to-infinitive		the eldest		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eld=Product
5	is in a quote	present	no way		pretty property	tree rules
6	have in a quote	present		some little wit		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=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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