The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 183
Consider well what things can bring thee joy and prosperity, and as thy happiness is at stake, be not over-hasty, but revolve the matter in thy mind."
Who acts: you, things, happiness, thy · What happens: consider, bring, be, not be, revolve, mind · To what, where: thee, matter, mind
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 (you, things, happiness, thy), 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 | Consider | consider | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Consider | advmod |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 bring | obj |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 bring | aux |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Consider | ccomp |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 bring | obj |
| 8 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 prosperity | cc |
| 10 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 joy | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 over-hasty | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 over-hasty | cc |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 stake | case |
| 14 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 15 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stake | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 stake | cop |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 stake | case |
| 18 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 over-hasty | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stake | punct |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 over-hasty | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 over-hasty | advmod |
| 22 | over-hasty | over-hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Consider | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 revolve | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 revolve | cc |
| 25 | revolve | revolve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 over-hasty | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 matter | det |
| 27 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 revolve | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 mind | case |
| 29 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 mind | nmod:poss |
| 30 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 revolve | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Consider | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Consider | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | imperative | you not said here | well property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | can | things | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | thy happiness | as stake | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is | infinitive | over-hasty property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | revolve | infinitive | the matter | thy mind | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent matter=Theme | ||||
| 6 | mind | thy | nom mind «cognition 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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