The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 46

It is true also that their defects increased considerably with their age; the youngest visibly grew uglier and uglier, and the eldest became every day more and more stupid; she either made no answer at all to what was asked her, or said something very silly; she was with all this so unhandy, that she could not place four pieces of china upon the mantlepiece, without breaking one of them, nor drink a glass of water without spilling half of it upon her cloaths.

Who acts: talk, defects, youngest, eldest, queen · What happens: be, increase, grow, become, make, ask · To what, where: answer, all, queen, something, one, glass · 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 (talk, defects, youngest, eldest), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	also	also	ADV	_	8 increased	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 increased	mark
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 defects	nmod:poss
7	defects	defect	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 increased	nsubj
8	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 true	advcl
9	considerably	considerably	ADV	_	8 increased	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 age	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 age	nmod:poss
12	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 increased	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 grew	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 youngest	det
15	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 grew	nsubj
16	visibly	visibly	ADV	_	17 grew	advmod
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 true	conj
18	uglier	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 grew	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 uglier	cc
20	uglier	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 uglier	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 became	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 became	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 eldest	det
24	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 became	nsubj
25	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 grew	conj
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 became	obl:unmarked
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 became	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stupid	cc
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 stupid	advmod
31	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 more	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 made	punct
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 made	nsubj
34	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 made	advmod
35	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 grew	conj
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 answer	det
37	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 made	obj
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 all	case
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 made	obl
40	to	to	SCONJ	_	43 asked	mark
41	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	43 asked	nsubj:pass
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 asked	aux:pass
43	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 made	advcl
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 asked	iobj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 said	punct
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	47 said	cc
47	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 made	conj
48	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	47 said	obj
49	very	very	ADV	_	50 silly	advmod
50	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 something	amod
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 unhandy	punct
52	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 unhandy	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 unhandy	cop
54	with	with	SCONJ	_	58 unhandy	mark
55	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	56 this	det:predet
56	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	58 unhandy	nsubj
57	so	so	ADV	_	58 unhandy	advmod
58	unhandy	unhandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 true	conj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 place	punct
60	that	that	SCONJ	_	64 place	mark
61	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 place	nsubj
62	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 place	aux
63	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	64 place	advmod
64	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 unhandy	obl
65	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	66 pieces	nummod
66	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 place	conj
67	of	of	ADP	_	68 china	case
68	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 pieces	nmod
69	upon	upon	ADP	_	71 mantlepiece	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 mantlepiece	det
71	mantlepiece	mantlepiece	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 china	nmod
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 breaking	punct
73	without	without	SCONJ	_	74 breaking	mark
74	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	58 unhandy	advcl
75	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	74 breaking	obj
76	of	of	ADP	_	77 them	case
77	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 one	nmod
78	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 drink	punct
79	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	80 drink	cc
80	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 true	conj
81	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	82 glass	det
82	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	80 drink	obj
83	of	of	ADP	_	84 water	case
84	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	82 glass	nmod
85	without	without	SCONJ	_	86 spilling	mark
86	spilling	spill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	80 drink	advcl
87	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	86 spilling	obj
88	of	of	ADP	_	89 it	case
89	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	87 half	nmod
90	upon	upon	ADP	_	92 cloaths	case
91	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	92 cloaths	nmod:poss
92	cloaths	cloath	NOUN	Number=Plur	86 spilling	obl
93	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	talk					true property	tree rules
2	increase	participle	Princesses's defects				with Princesses's age	considerably property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	grow	past	the youngest					ugly, visibly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	become	past	the eldest				day		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	make	past	queen	no answer		all		either property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product
6	ask speech: ask	past · passive			queen				tree rules
7	say speech: assert	past	queen not said here	something					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
8	is	past	queen					unhandy property	tree rules
9	not place	could	queen						tree rules
10	break	gerund	queen not said here	one of Princesses					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient
11	drink	infinitive	talk not said here	a glass of water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient
12	spill	gerund	talk not said here	half of talk				upon queen's cloaths	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location half=Theme

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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