The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 166
_At many children parents don't repine, If they are handsome; in their judgment shine; Polite in carriage are, in body strong, Graceful in mien, and elegant in tongue.
Who acts: parents · What happens: not repine, be · To what, where: carriage
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 (parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 repine | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 children | case |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 children | amod |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 repine | obl |
| 5 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 repine | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 repine | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 repine | advmod |
| 8 | repine | repine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 handsome | punct |
| 10 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 handsome | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 handsome | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 handsome | cop |
| 13 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 repine | parataxis |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 shine | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 shine | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 shine | nmod:poss |
| 17 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shine | compound |
| 18 | shine | shine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 repine | parataxis |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 Polite | punct |
| 20 | Polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shine | amod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 carriage | case |
| 22 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Polite | obl |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Polite | cop |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 body | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 body | case |
| 26 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Polite | conj |
| 27 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 body | amod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Graceful | punct |
| 29 | Graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 body | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 mien | case |
| 31 | mien | mien | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Graceful | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 elegant | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 elegant | cc |
| 34 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Graceful | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 tongue | case |
| 36 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 elegant | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 repine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not repine | present · do-support | parents | at many children | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | parents = parent | handsome property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | carriage | polite 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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