The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], sentence 10

As the more wit we have, the greater difficulty we find to make a firm resolution upon such affairs, this made her desire her father, after having thanked him, to give her time to consider of it.

Who acts: we, greater difficulty, this, noise · What happens: have, find, make, desire, thank, give · To what, where: more wit, greater difficulty, firm resolution, noise, father

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, greater difficulty, this, noise), 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	As	as	ADP	_	4 wit	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wit	det
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 wit	amod
4	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wit	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wit	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 difficulty	det
9	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 difficulty	amod
10	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wit	conj
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 find	nsubj
12	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 difficulty	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 find	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 resolution	det
16	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 resolution	amod
17	resolution	resolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 affairs	case
19	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 affairs	amod
20	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 resolution	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 made	nsubj
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 difficulty	acl:relcl
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 made	obj
25	desire	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 made	xcomp
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 father	nmod:poss
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 desire	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 thanked	punct
29	after	after	SCONJ	_	31 thanked	mark
30	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 thanked	aux
31	thanked	thank	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 desire	parataxis
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 thanked	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 give	punct
34	to	to	PART	_	35 give	mark
35	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 desire	conj
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 time	nmod:poss
37	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 give	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 consider	mark
39	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 time	acl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 consider	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	we	the more wit and the greater difficulty not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient
2	find	present	we	the greater difficulty not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent difficulty=Attribute clause=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive	the greater difficulty not said here	a firm resolution			upon such affairs	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset resolution=Product
4	make	past	this	noise				tree rules
5	desire	infinitive	noise not said here	noise's father				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot father=Theme
6	thank speech: thank	gerund · perfect			father			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	give	to-infinitive	noise not said here			time		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
8	consider	to-infinitive	noise not said here				of resolution	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent

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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