The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 59
"I do not know that," said the Princess; "but I know, very well, that I am very senseless, and thence proceeds the vexation which almost kills me."
Who acts: Princess, vexation · What happens: not know, say, know, be, proceed, kill · To what, where: that, vexation, Princess · 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, vexation), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 know | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 but | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 know | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 well | punct |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 well | advmod |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 know | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 senseless | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 senseless | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 senseless | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 senseless | cop |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 senseless | advmod |
| 25 | senseless | senseless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 know | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 proceeds | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 proceeds | cc |
| 28 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 29 proceeds | advmod |
| 29 | proceeds | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 vexation | det |
| 31 | vexation | vexation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 proceeds | obj |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 kills | nsubj |
| 33 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 34 kills | advmod |
| 34 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 vexation | acl:relcl |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 kills | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 proceeds | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 proceeds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | the Princess = princess | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | the Princess = princess | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the Princess = princess | senseless property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | proceed in a quote | present | the vexation | thence property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | kill in a quote | present | the vexation | the Princess = princess | almost property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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