The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], sentence 20
What made her forget this was that, when she made this promise, she was very silly, and having obtained that vast stock of wit which the Prince had bestowed on her, she had intirely forgot her stupidity.
Who acts: Princess, Prince · What happens: make, forget, be, obtain, bestow, have · To what, where: Princess, this, vast stock, wit, stupidity
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, Prince), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | xcomp |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 forget | obj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | cop |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 made | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 promise | det |
| 13 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 silly | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 silly | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 silly | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 silly | advmod |
| 18 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 made | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 obtained | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 obtained | cc |
| 21 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 obtained | aux |
| 22 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 silly | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 stock | mark |
| 24 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stock | amod |
| 25 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 obtained | xcomp |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 wit | case |
| 27 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stock | nmod |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 bestowed | obj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Prince | det |
| 30 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 bestowed | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 bestowed | aux |
| 32 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 wit | acl:relcl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 her | case |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 bestowed | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 had | punct |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 had | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 silly | conj |
| 38 | intirely | intirely | ADV | _ | 39 forgot | advmod |
| 39 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 had | advcl |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 stupidity | nmod:poss |
| 41 | stupidity | stupidity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 forgot | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | forget | infinitive | Princess not said here | this | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Princess | make property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Princess | silly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | obtain | gerund · perfect | Princess not said here | vast stock of wit | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 6 | bestow | past · perfect | the Prince | wit | on Princess | tree rules | |||
| 7 | have | past | Princess | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | forget | past | Princess not said here | Princess's stupidity | intirely property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | stock | wit | nom stock «possession transitive»: of=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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