The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], sentence 19

The Princess was more surprised than ever, and recollecting that it was now that day twelvemonth on which she had promised to marry Riquet with the Tuft, she was like to sink into the ground.

Who acts: Princess, chief · What happens: be, recollect, promise, marry, sink · To what, where: day twelvemonth, Riquet, ground

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 (Princess, chief), 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 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 surprised	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	cop
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 surprised	advmod
5	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 ever	case
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 surprised	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 like	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 like	cc
10	recollecting	recollect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 like	advcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 twelvemonth	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 twelvemonth	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 twelvemonth	cop
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 twelvemonth	advmod
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 twelvemonth	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 twelvemonth	compound
17	twelvemonth	twelvemonth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 recollecting	ccomp
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 promised	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 promised	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 promised	aux
22	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 twelvemonth	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 marry	mark
24	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 promised	xcomp
25	Riquet	riquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 marry	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 Tuft	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Tuft	det
28	Tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 marry	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 recollecting	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 like	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 like	cop
32	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 surprised	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 sink	mark
34	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 like	xcomp
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 ground	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ground	det
37	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sink	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Princess				surprised property	tree rules
2	recollect	gerund	Princess not said here					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	chief	that day twelvemonth		now		tree rules
4	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	Princess		that day twelvemonth			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	Riquet			with the Tuft	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riquet=Patient
6	is	past	Princess				like property	tree rules
7	sink not said to happen	to-infinitive	Princess not said here		the ground			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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