The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 9

The gentleman who was sent to try the slipper, looked earnestly at Cinderilla, and finding her very handsome, said it was but just that she should try, and that he had orders to let every one make tryal.

Who acts: gentleman, finding, ball, one · What happens: send, try, look, find, say, be · To what, where: gentleman, slipper, handsome, orders, one, tryal · 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 (gentleman, finding, ball, one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gentleman	det
2	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looked	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sent	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	aux:pass
5	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gentleman	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 try	mark
7	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sent	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 slipper	det
9	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 try	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 gentleman	punct
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	11 looked	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 Cinderilla	case
14	Cinderilla	Cinderilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 looked	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
17	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 said	csubj
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 handsome	nmod:poss
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 handsome	advmod
20	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 finding	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 finding	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 looked	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 try	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 try	cop
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 try	cc
26	just	just	ADV	_	30 try	advmod
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 try	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 try	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 try	aux
30	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 had	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 had	cc
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 had	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 looked	conj
36	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 had	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 let	mark
38	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 had	advcl
39	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	40 one	det
40	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 let	obj
41	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 let	xcomp
42	tryal	tryal	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 make	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		the gentleman		tree rules
2	try	to-infinitive	the gentleman not said here	the slipper		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slipper=Eventuality
3	look	past	the gentleman		at Cinderilla; earnestly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cinderilla=Theme
4	find	gerund		Cinderilla's handsome		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handsome=Topic
5	say speech: assert	past	finding			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	is	should · past	ball		try property	tree rules
7	have	past	gentleman	orders		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient
8	let	to-infinitive	gentleman not said here	every one		tree rules
9	make	infinitive	every one not said here	tryal		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tryal=Product

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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