The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 56
"Beauty," replied Riquet with the Tuft, "is such a great advantage, that it ought to take the place of all things; and since you possess this treasure, I see nothing that can possibly very much afflict you."
Who acts: Beauty, it, you · What happens: reply, be, take, possess, see, afflict · To what, where: great advantage, place, treasure, nothing, you · 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 (Beauty, it, you), 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 | _ | 2 Beauty | punct |
| 2 | Beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beauty | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beauty | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Riquet | Riquet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Tuft | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Tuft | det |
| 9 | Tuft | tuft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 advantage | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 advantage | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 advantage | cop |
| 13 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 advantage | det:predet |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 advantage | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 advantage | amod |
| 16 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 take | nsubj |
| 20 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 take | aux |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 things | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 things | det |
| 27 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 place | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 see | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 see | cc |
| 30 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 32 possess | mark |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 possess | nsubj |
| 32 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 see | advcl |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 treasure | det |
| 34 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 possess | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 possess | punct |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 see | nsubj |
| 37 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 38 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 37 see | obj |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 afflict | obj |
| 40 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 afflict | aux |
| 41 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 43 much | advmod |
| 42 | very | very | ADV | _ | 43 much | advmod |
| 43 | much | much | ADV | _ | 44 afflict | advmod |
| 44 | afflict | afflict | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 afflict | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 see | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Beauty | with the Tuft | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | such great advantage | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | ought | it | the place of all things | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 4 | possess in a quote | present | you | this treasure | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot treasure=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | present | Beauty | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | afflict in a quote | can | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer you=Result |
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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