The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], sentence 2
The Princess had so little wit, and, at the same time, so great a longing to have some, that she imagined the end of that year would never be; therefore she accepted the proposal which was made her.
Who acts: Princess, longing, end · What happens: have, imagine, not be, accept, make · To what, where: little wit, some, proposal
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, longing, end), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 little | advmod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wit | amod |
| 6 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 time | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 time | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 time | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 great | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 great | advmod |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 longing | det |
| 18 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 great | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 have | mark |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 great | advcl |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 have | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 imagined | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 imagined | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 imagined | nsubj |
| 25 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 end | det |
| 27 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 be | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 year | case |
| 29 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 year | det |
| 30 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 end | nmod |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 be | aux |
| 32 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 33 be | advmod |
| 33 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 imagined | ccomp |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 accepted | punct |
| 35 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 37 accepted | advmod |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 accepted | nsubj |
| 37 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 proposal | det |
| 39 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 accepted | obj |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 made | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 made | aux:pass |
| 42 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 proposal | acl:relcl |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 made | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Princess | little wit | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | some | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | ||||
| 3 | imagine | past | longing | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not be | would | the end of that year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | accept | past | end | the proposal | therefore property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme | |||
| 6 | make | past · passive | the proposal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary she=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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