The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 45
As these Princesses grew up, their perfections grew up with them; all the public talk was of the beauty of the eldest, and the wit of the youngest.
Who acts: Princesses, perfections, public talk · What happens: grow up, be, perfect
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 (Princesses, perfections, public talk), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 grew | mark |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 Princesses | det |
| 3 | Princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 youngest | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 grew | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 perfections | nmod:poss |
| 8 | perfections | perfection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 grew | compound:prt |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 grew | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 beauty | punct |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 talk | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 talk | det |
| 16 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 talk | amod |
| 17 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beauty | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 beauty | cop |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 beauty | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 beauty | det |
| 21 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 eldest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 eldest | det |
| 24 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 beauty | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wit | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wit | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wit | det |
| 28 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 youngest | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 youngest | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 youngest | det |
| 31 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 youngest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | this Princesses | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow up | past | Princesses's perfections | with Princesses = princess | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | all public talk | of the beauty; of the eldest | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | perfect | Princesses = princess | nom perfection «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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