The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 162

There were some married women, too, who sent letters by him to their husbands, but they paid him so ill that it was not worth his while, and turned to such small account, that he scorned ever to reckon what he got that way.

Who acts: married women, letters, expedition, Thumb · What happens: be, send, pay, not be, turn, scorn · To what, where: letters, husbands, Thumb, such small account, way

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 (married women, letters, expedition, Thumb), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 women	det
4	married	married	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 women	amod
5	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sent	punct
7	too	too	ADV	_	10 sent	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sent	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 sent	nsubj
10	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
11	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sent	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sent	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 husbands	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 husbands	nmod:poss
16	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sent	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 paid	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 paid	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 paid	nsubj
20	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 paid	obj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 ill	advmod
23	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 paid	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 worth	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 worth	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 worth	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 worth	advmod
28	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ill	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 while	nmod:poss
30	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 worth	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 turned	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 turned	cc
33	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	parataxis
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 account	case
35	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 account	amod
36	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 account	amod
37	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 turned	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 scorned	punct
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 scorned	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 scorned	nsubj
41	scorned	scorn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 turned	conj
42	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	44 reckon	advmod
43	to	to	PART	_	44 reckon	mark
44	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 scorned	xcomp
45	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	47 got	obj
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 got	nsubj
47	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 reckon	ccomp
48	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 way	det
49	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 got	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	some married women			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	send	past		letters	letters's husbands			by Thumb	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to husband=Destination
3	pay	past	letters = letter	Thumb					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset
4	not is	past	expedition				while	worth property	tree rules
5	turn	past				such small account			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to account=Trajectory
6	scorn	past	Thumb						tree rules
7	reckon	to-infinitive	Thumb not said here				ever		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	get	past	Thumb	that way					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary way=Theme

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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