The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 48

The eldest, tho' she was unaccountably dull, could not but notice it, and would have given all her beauty to have half the wit of her sister.

Who acts: queen · What happens: be, not notice, give, have · To what, where: quarter, beauty, wit

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eldest	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dull	punct
4	tho	though	SCONJ	_	9 dull	mark
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 dull	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dull	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dull	cop
8	unaccountably	unaccountably	ADV	_	9 dull	advmod
9	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 eldest	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 notice	punct
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 notice	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 notice	advmod
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 notice	cc
14	notice	notice	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 eldest	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 notice	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 given	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 given	cc
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 given	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 given	aux
20	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 notice	parataxis
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 beauty	det:predet
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 beauty	nmod:poss
23	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 given	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 have	mark
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 beauty	acl
26	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	28 wit	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wit	det
28	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 sister	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 sister	nmod:poss
31	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wit	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eldest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	queen		dull, unaccountably property	tree rules
2	not notice	could		quarter		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	give	would · perfect		queen's beauty		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Theme
4	have	to-infinitive		half wit of queen's sister		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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