The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 195

We had best take counsel of the night, and wish no wishes until to-morrow."

Who acts: We · What happens: have, wish · To what, where: best take counsel, wishes

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 (We), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 counsel	amod
4	take	take	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 counsel	compound
5	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 night	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 counsel	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wish	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wish	cc
11	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 wishes	det
13	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wish	obj
14	until	until	ADP	_	17 morrow	case
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 morrow	case
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 to	punct
17	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wish	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	We	best take counsel of the night					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Patient
2	wish	present	We not said here	no wishes			until morrow		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wish=Theme

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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