The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 13
_What in this little Tale we find, Is less a fable than real truth.
Who acts: we · What happens: find, be · To what, where: little Tale
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 (we), 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 | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 less | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Tale | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 Tale | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Tale | amod |
| 6 | Tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 What | nmod |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 find | nsubj |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Tale | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 10 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 less | cop |
| 11 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fable | det |
| 13 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 less | nsubj |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 truth | case |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 truth | amod |
| 16 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 less | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 less | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | we | this little Tale not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | than real truth; less property | tree rules |
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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