The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 17
_A countenance whereon, by natures hand, Beauty is trac'd, also the lively stain Of such complexion art can ne'er attain, With all these gifts hath not so much command On hearts, as hath one secret charm alone.
Who acts: Beauty, countenance · What happens: be, ne'er, attain, have · To what, where: trac 'd, much command, hearts, one secret charm
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 (Beauty, countenance), 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 | _ | 3 countenance | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 countenance | det |
| 3 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ne'er | nsubj |
| 4 | whereon | whereon | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 countenance | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hand | punct |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 7 | natures | nature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hand | compound |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 countenance | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 'd | punct |
| 10 | Beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 'd | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 'd | cop |
| 12 | trac | trac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 'd | compound |
| 13 | 'd | 'd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hand | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stain | punct |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 stain | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stain | det |
| 17 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stain | amod |
| 18 | stain | stain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hand | conj |
| 19 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 22 art | case |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 art | amod |
| 21 | complexion | complexion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 art | compound |
| 22 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stain | nmod |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 ne'er | aux |
| 24 | ne'er | ne'er | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 25 | attain | attain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ne'er | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hath | punct |
| 27 | With | with | ADP | _ | 30 gifts | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 gifts | det:predet |
| 29 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 30 gifts | det |
| 30 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 hath | obl |
| 31 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 attain | advcl |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 much | advmod |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 much | advmod |
| 34 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 command | amod |
| 35 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hath | obj |
| 36 | On | on | ADP | _ | 37 hearts | case |
| 37 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 command | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 hath | punct |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 hath | mark |
| 40 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 ne'er | parataxis |
| 41 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 charm | nummod |
| 42 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 charm | amod |
| 43 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hath | obj |
| 44 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 40 hath | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 ne'er | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Beauty | trac 'd | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ne'er | can | a countenance and natures hand and trac 'd and the lively stain of such complexion art | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | attain | infinitive | a countenance and natures hand and trac 'd and the lively stain of such complexion art not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | present | a countenance and natures hand and trac 'd and the lively stain of such complexion art not said here | much command | hearts | with all gifts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Patient | ||
| 5 | have | present | one secret charm | alone property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=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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