The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 44

"I can do nothing for her, Madam, as to wit," answered the Fairy, "but everything as to beauty; and as there is nothing but what I would do for your satisfaction, I give her for gift, that she shall have the power to make handsome the person who shall best please her."

Who acts: Fairy, nothing, Queen, your · What happens: do, wit, answer, be, give, have · To what, where: nothing, queen, power, handsome person · 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 (Fairy, nothing, Queen, your), 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 do	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wit	advcl
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 do	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Madam	punct
9	Madam	Madam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wit	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 wit	mark
12	to	to	ADP	_	11 as	fixed
13	wit	wit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wit	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Fairy	det
18	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 answered	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 wit	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 everything	cc
22	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 wit	conj
23	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	25 beauty	case
24	to	to	ADP	_	23 as	fixed
25	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 everything	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 give	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 give	cc
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 is	mark
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 is	expl
30	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 give	advcl
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 is	nsubj
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 what	cc
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 do	obj
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 do	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 do	aux
36	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 nothing	acl:relcl
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 satisfaction	case
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 satisfaction	nmod:poss
39	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 do	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 is	punct
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 give	nsubj
42	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wit	parataxis
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 give	iobj
44	for	for	ADP	_	45 gift	case
45	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 give	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 have	punct
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 have	mark
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 have	nsubj
49	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 have	aux
50	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 give	conj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 power	det
52	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 have	obj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 make	mark
54	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 have	advcl
55	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 person	amod
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 person	det
57	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 make	obj
58	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	60 best	nsubj
59	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 best	aux
60	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	57 person	appos
61	please	please	INTJ	_	62 her	discourse
62	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 make	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 wit	punct
64	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 wit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	can	the Fairy = fairy	nothing			for queen; Madam obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
2	wit in a quote	imperative						tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	past	the Fairy					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	be in a quote	present	nothing			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do in a quote	would	the Queen = queen				for your satisfaction	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	give in a quote	present	the Queen = queen		queen		for gift	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Theme for gift=Asset
7	have in a quote	shall	queen	the power				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
8	make in a quote	to-infinitive	queen not said here	the handsome person			queen obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset person=Product
9	satisfy in a quote		your					nom satisfaction «feeling 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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