The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], sentence 32
Can you pretend this; you who have so great a share, and desired so earnestly to have it?
Who acts: you · What happens: pretend, have, desire · To what, where: this, great, share
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 (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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 pretend | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 pretend | nsubj |
| 3 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 pretend | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pretend | parataxis |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 great | advmod |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 share | det |
| 12 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 great | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 desired | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 desired | cc |
| 15 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pretend | parataxis |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 earnestly | advmod |
| 17 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 15 desired | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 have | mark |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 desired | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 have | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 pretend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | can | you | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | you | great | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent great=Patient | ||||
| 3 | desire | participle | earnestly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | have | to-infinitive | share | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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