The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 66

Now, you must know, that Peter was her eldest son, whom she loved above all the rest, because he was somewhat carrotty, as she herself was.

Who acts: you, Peter, son · What happens: know, be, love · To what, where: eldest son, rest, carrotty

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 (you, Peter, son), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 know	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 son	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 son	mark
8	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 son	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 son	cop
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 son	nmod:poss
11	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 son	amod
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	vocative
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 whom	punct
14	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 son	appos
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 loved	nsubj
16	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 whom	acl:relcl
17	above	above	ADP	_	20 rest	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 rest	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rest	det
20	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 loved	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 carrotty	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 carrotty	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 carrotty	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 carrotty	cop
25	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	26 carrotty	advmod
26	carrotty	carrotty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 was	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 was	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 was	nsubj
30	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 she	conj
31	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	must	you			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	Peter	Peter's eldest son				tree rules
3	love	past	Peter		all rest			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	son	carrotty			somewhat property	tree rules
5	be	past	Peter					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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