The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 10
Howsoever it was, the Princess promised immediately to marry him, on condition he obtained her father's consent.
Who acts: Princess, hump, father · What happens: be, promise, marry, obtain, consent · To what, where: hump, condition, consent
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, hump, father), 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 | Howsoever | howsoever | ADV | _ | 7 promised | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 was | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Howsoever | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Howsoever | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 promised | nsubj |
| 7 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 7 promised | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 marry | mark |
| 10 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 promised | xcomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 marry | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 condition | punct |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 condition | case |
| 14 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 marry | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 obtained | nsubj |
| 16 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 condition | acl:relcl |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 consent | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 father | case |
| 20 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 obtained | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | howsoever property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | the Princess | immediately property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | hump | condition | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 4 | obtain | past | hump | Princess's father's consent | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | consent | Princess's father | nom consent «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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