The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 52

Overjoyed to find her thus all alone, he addressed himself to her with all imaginable politeness and respect.

Who acts: many · What happens: overjoy, find, address · To what, where: queen, many

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 (many), 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	Overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 find	mark
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Overjoyed	xcomp
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	obj
5	thus	thus	ADV	_	3 find	advmod
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 alone	advmod
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 find	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 addressed	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 addressed	nsubj
10	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Overjoyed	parataxis
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 addressed	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 addressed	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 politeness	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 politeness	det
16	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 politeness	amod
17	politeness	politeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 addressed	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 respect	cc
19	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 politeness	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Overjoyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	overjoy	past					tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive		queen		alone, thus property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
3	address	past	many	many	queen	with all imaginable politeness and respect	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with politeness=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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