The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 187
Many a wish came into his mind, but he was resolved to seek the advice of his wife, who was a young woman of good understanding.
Who acts: Many wish, advice, load · What happens: come, resolve, seek, be, mind · To what, where: mind, load, advice, young woman
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 (Many wish, advice, load), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wish | amod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wish | det |
| 3 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 mind | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 resolved | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 resolved | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 resolved | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 resolved | aux:pass |
| 12 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 came | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 seek | mark |
| 14 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 resolved | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 advice | det |
| 16 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seek | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 wife | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 advice | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 woman | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 woman | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 woman | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 woman | det |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 woman | amod |
| 25 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 advice | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 understanding | case |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 understanding | amod |
| 28 | understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 woman | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a Many wish | load's mind | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mind=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | resolve | past · passive | load | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | the advice of load's wife | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | the advice of load's wife | a young woman | of good understanding | tree rules | |||
| 5 | mind | load | 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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