The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 57

"I had far rather," cried the Princess, "be as ugly as you are, and have wit, than have the beauty I possess, and be so stupid as I am."

Who acts: Princess, you · What happens: have, cry, be, possess · To what, where: wit, beauty · 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 (Princess, 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	_	3 had	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 rather	advmod
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ugly	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 ugly	punct
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 ugly	cop
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 ugly	advmod
15	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cried	conj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 are	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 are	nsubj
18	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 ugly	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 have	cc
21	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
22	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 have	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 beauty	det
27	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 possess	nsubj
29	possess	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 beauty	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stupid	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 stupid	cc
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 stupid	cop
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 stupid	advmod
34	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 have	parataxis
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 I	case
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 stupid	obl
37	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 stupid	cop
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	the Princess = princess			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	the Princess			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	infinitive	the Princess not said here		ugly property	tree rules
4	does in a quote	present	you			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have in a quote	present		wit		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient
6	have in a quote	infinitive		the beauty		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Patient
7	possess in a quote	present	the Princess = princess	the beauty not said here		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot beauty=Theme
8	is in a quote	infinitive			as the Princess = princess; stupid property	tree rules

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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