The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], sentence 8
However, there came one so powerful, rich, witty and handsome, that she could not help having a good inclination for him.
Who acts: noise · What happens: come, not help, have · To what, where: good inclination
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 (noise), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 came | expl |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 powerful | nsubj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 powerful | advmod |
| 7 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rich | punct |
| 9 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 powerful | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 witty | punct |
| 11 | witty | witty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 powerful | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 handsome | cc |
| 13 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 powerful | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 help | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 help | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 help | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 help | advmod |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | advcl |
| 20 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 help | xcomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 inclination | det |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 inclination | amod |
| 23 | inclination | inclination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 having | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 having | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | there | however property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not help | could | noise | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have not said to happen | gerund | noise not said here | a good inclination | for King | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inclination=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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