The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 54

"I cannot comprehend, Madam, how a person so beautiful as you are, can be so sorrowful as you seem to be; for tho' I can boast of having seen infinite numbers of ladies exquisitely charming, I can say that I never beheld any one whose beauty approaches yours."

Who acts: I, you, tho, beauty · What happens: not comprehend, be, seem, boast, see, charm · To what, where: Madam, infinite numbers, one, yours · 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 (I, you, tho, beauty), 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	_	5 comprehend	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 comprehend	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 comprehend	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 comprehend	advmod
5	comprehend	comprehend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Madam	punct
7	Madam	Madam	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 comprehend	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 beautiful	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 beautiful	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 person	det
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 beautiful	nsubj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 beautiful	advmod
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Madam	amod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 are	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 are	nsubj
16	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 beautiful	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sorrowful	punct
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sorrowful	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 sorrowful	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 sorrowful	advmod
21	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 comprehend	conj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 seem	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 seem	nsubj
24	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 sorrowful	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 be	mark
26	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 seem	xcomp
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 boast	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 boast	mark
29	tho	tho	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 boast	nsubj
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 boast	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 boast	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 boast	aux
33	boast	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 comprehend	conj
34	of	of	SCONJ	_	36 seen	mark
35	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 seen	aux
36	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 say	advcl
37	infinite	infinite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 numbers	amod
38	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 seen	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 ladies	case
40	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 numbers	nmod
41	exquisitely	exquisitely	ADV	_	42 charming	advmod
42	charming	charm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 seen	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 seen	punct
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 say	nsubj
45	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 say	aux
46	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 boast	conj
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 beheld	mark
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 beheld	nsubj
49	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	50 beheld	advmod
50	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 say	ccomp
51	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	52 one	det
52	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 beheld	obj
53	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	54 beauty	nmod:poss
54	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 approaches	nsubj
55	approaches	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 one	acl:relcl
56	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 approaches	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 comprehend	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 comprehend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not comprehend in a quote	can	I	Madam		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer madam=Stimulus
2	does in a quote	present	you			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	can	I not said here		sorrowful property	tree rules
4	seem in a quote	present	you			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	be in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	boast speech: other in a quote	can	tho			vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	see in a quote	gerund · perfect	I not said here	infinite numbers of ladies		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus
8	charm in a quote	gerund	I not said here		exquisitely property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
9	say speech: assert in a quote	can	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	not behold in a quote	past	I	any one		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
11	approach in a quote	present	beauty	yours		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent your=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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