The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 194
"'Twere a pity," she said, "to spoil our chances through impatience.
Who acts: Fanny, our · What happens: say, spoil, chance · To what, where: chances, impatience · Speech: someone speaks here
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, our), 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 | _ | 5 pity | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Twere | punct |
| 3 | Twere | Twere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pity | compound |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pity | det |
| 5 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pity | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pity | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spoil | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 spoil | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 spoil | mark |
| 13 | spoil | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 chances | nmod:poss |
| 15 | chances | chance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 spoil | obj |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 impatience | case |
| 17 | impatience | impatience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spoil | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Fanny | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | spoil in a quote | to-infinitive | our chances | impatience | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | chance in a quote | our | nom chance «state intransitive»: 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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