The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 58
"There is nothing, Madam," returned he, "shews more that we have wit, than to believe we have none; and it is the nature of that excellent quality, that the more people have of it, the more they believe they want it."
Who acts: nothing, we, most, more people, people · What happens: be, return, shew, have, believe, want · To what, where: Riquet, more, wit, none, nature, most · 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 (nothing, we, most, more people), 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 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 shews | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 is | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Madam | punct |
| 6 | Madam | Madam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 returned | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 returned | punct |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 nothing | conj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 returned | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 13 | shews | shew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 shews | obj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 shews | advcl |
| 18 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 believe | punct |
| 20 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 22 believe | mark |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 believe | mark |
| 22 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 have | conj |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 believe | ccomp |
| 25 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 24 have | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 nature | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 nature | cc |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 nature | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 nature | cop |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 nature | det |
| 31 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shews | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 quality | case |
| 33 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 quality | det |
| 34 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 quality | amod |
| 35 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 nature | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 have | punct |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 have | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 people | det |
| 39 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 people | amod |
| 40 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 have | nsubj |
| 41 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 shews | parataxis |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 it | case |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 have | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 believe | punct |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 more | det |
| 46 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 48 believe | advmod |
| 47 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 believe | nsubj |
| 48 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 have | conj |
| 49 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 want | nsubj |
| 50 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 believe | ccomp |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 want | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 shews | punct |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 shews | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | past | nothing not said here | Riquet | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shew in a quote | present | more | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | we | wit | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient | ||||
| 5 | believe in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | we | none | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | most | the nature | of that excellent quality | tree rules | |||
| 8 | have in a quote | present | the more people | of most | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | believe in a quote | present | people | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 10 | want in a quote | present | people | most | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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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