The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], sentence 25

"I believe it," said the Princess, "and surely if I had to do with a clown, or a man of no wit, I should find myself very much at a loss. '

Who acts: Princess, man · What happens: believe, say, have, do, find · To what, where: resolution, man, Princess, loss · 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, man), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 believe	nsubj
3	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 believe	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 believe	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 believe	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
13	surely	surely	ADV	_	16 had	advmod
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 do	mark
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 clown	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 clown	det
21	clown	clown	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 do	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 man	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 man	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 man	det
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 wit	case
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 wit	det
28	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 man	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 find	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 find	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 find	aux
32	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	conj
33	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 find	obj
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 much	advmod
35	much	much	ADV	_	32 find	advmod
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 loss	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 loss	det
38	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 find	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	believe in a quote	present	the Princess = princess	resolution			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the Princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	the Princess = princess	a man of no wit		surely property	tree rules
4	do in a quote	to-infinitive	a man of no wit not said here			with a clown	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	find in a quote	should	the Princess = princess	the Princess = princess	a loss		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent myself=Theme at loss=Asset

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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