The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 193
Fanny, whose mind was quick and active, immediately conceived many plans for the advancement of their fortune, but she approved her husband's resolve to act with prudence and circumspection.
Who acts: Fanny · What happens: be, conceive, approve, act, advance · To what, where: many plans, resolve, fortune
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 (Fanny), 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 | Fanny | Fanny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 quick | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 quick | punct |
| 3 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 4 mind | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 quick | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 quick | cop |
| 6 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 active | cc |
| 8 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 quick | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 conceived | punct |
| 10 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 11 conceived | advmod |
| 11 | conceived | conceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 quick | conj |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 plans | amod |
| 13 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 conceived | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 advancement | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 advancement | det |
| 16 | advancement | advancement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 conceived | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fortune | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 19 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 advancement | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 approved | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 approved | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 approved | nsubj |
| 23 | approved | approve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 quick | parataxis |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 husband | nmod:poss |
| 25 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 resolve | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 husband | case |
| 27 | resolve | resolve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 approved | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 act | mark |
| 29 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 approved | advcl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 prudence | case |
| 31 | prudence | prudence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 act | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 circumspection | cc |
| 33 | circumspection | circumspection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 prudence | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Fanny | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Fanny not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | conceive | participle | Fanny not said here | many plans | for the advancement of plans's fortune; immediately property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Theme | |||
| 4 | approve | past | Fanny | Fanny's husband's resolve | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resolve=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | act | to-infinitive | Fanny not said here | with prudence and circumspection | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | advance | plans's fortune | nom advancement «communication transitive»: of=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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