The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 5
"If it be so," said the Princess, "I wish, with all my heart, that you may be the most lovable Prince in the world, and I bestow it on you, as much as I am able."
Who acts: doubt, Princess, you · What happens: be, say, wish, bestow · To what, where: world, lovable Prince, doubt · 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 (doubt, Princess, you), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 so | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 so | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 so | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 said | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 so | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 so | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wish | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 wish | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 wish | nsubj |
| 14 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heart | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 heart | det:predet |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wish | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Prince | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 Prince | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 Prince | nsubj |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 Prince | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 Prince | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Prince | det |
| 26 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 27 lovable | advmod |
| 27 | lovable | lovable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Prince | amod |
| 28 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 wish | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 world | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wish | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 bestow | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 bestow | cc |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 bestow | nsubj |
| 35 | bestow | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 bestow | obj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 you | case |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 bestow | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 much | punct |
| 40 | as | as | ADV | _ | 41 much | advmod |
| 41 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 bestow | conj |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 45 able | mark |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 able | nsubj |
| 44 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 able | cop |
| 45 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 much | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | doubt | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | present | the Princess = princess | the world | with my heart | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | may | you | the lovable Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bestow in a quote | present | the Princess = princess | doubt | on you | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | the Princess = princess | able property | tree rules |
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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