The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], sentence 26

A Princess always observes her word,' would he say to me, 'and you must marry me, since you promised to do so.'

Who acts: Princess, Riquet, you · What happens: observe, say, marry, promise, do, word · To what, where: word, me · 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, Riquet, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 observes	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 observes	advmod
4	observes	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 word	nmod:poss
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 observes	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 say	aux
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 observes	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 say	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 marry	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 marry	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 marry	aux
19	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 say	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 marry	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 promised	punct
22	since	since	SCONJ	_	24 promised	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 promised	nsubj
24	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 marry	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 do	mark
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 promised	xcomp
27	so	so	ADV	_	26 do	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 observes	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 observes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	observe	present	a Princess	Princess's word		always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	say speech: assert	would	Riquet		me		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient
3	marry	must	you	me			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	promise speech: promise	past	you				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	word		Princess				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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