The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 2

If it be so," said Riquet with the Tuft, "I am like to be happy, since it is in your power to make me the most lovable of men."

Who acts: it, Riquet, I, Tuft · What happens: be, say, like, make · To what, where: power, me · 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 (it, Riquet, I, Tuft), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 so	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 so	nsubj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 so	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 said	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 so	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 so	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Riquet	Riquet	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 Tuft	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Tuft	det
11	Tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 like	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 like	aux
16	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	19 happy	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 happy	cop
19	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 like	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 power	punct
21	since	since	SCONJ	_	26 power	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 power	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 power	cop
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 power	case
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 power	nmod:poss
26	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 like	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 make	mark
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 power	acl
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 make	obj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 lovable	det
31	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	32 lovable	advmod
32	lovable	lovable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 make	xcomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 men	case
34	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 lovable	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	it			so property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Riquet			with the Tuft	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	like	present	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
4	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here			happy property	tree rules
5	is	present	Tuft		your power		tree rules
6	make	to-infinitive	I not said here	me		lovable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product

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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