The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], sentence 23
"I shall freely own to you," answered the Princess, "that I have not yet taken any resolution on this affair, and believe I never shall take such a one as you desire."
Who acts: Princess, Tuft, you · What happens: own, answer, not take, believe, desire · To what, where: you, that, affair, one · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Tuft, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 own | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 own | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 own | aux |
| 4 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 5 own | advmod |
| 5 | own | own | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 own | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 own | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Princess | det |
| 12 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 own | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 taken | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 taken | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 taken | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 taken | advmod |
| 19 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 20 taken | advmod |
| 20 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 own | ccomp |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 resolution | det |
| 22 | resolution | resolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 affair | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 affair | det |
| 25 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 believe | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 believe | cc |
| 28 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 own | conj |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 take | nsubj |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 32 take | advmod |
| 31 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 take | aux |
| 32 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 believe | ccomp |
| 33 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 one | det:predet |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 one | det |
| 35 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 take | obj |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 desire | mark |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 desire | nsubj |
| 38 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 take | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 own | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 own | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own in a quote | shall | the Princess = princess | you | freely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not take in a quote | present · perfect | Tuft | that | this affair | yet | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument that=Theme resolution=Destination | ||
| 4 | believe in a quote | present | Tuft not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | not take in a quote | shall | Tuft | such one | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 6 | desire in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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