The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 7
Some affirm that it was not the enchantments of the Fairy which worked this change, but that love alone caused the metamorphosis.
Who acts: Some, Tuft, Fairy, love · What happens: affirm, not be, work, cause · To what, where: enchantments, change, metamorphosis
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 (Some, Tuft, Fairy, love), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 affirm | nsubj |
| 2 | affirm | affirm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 enchantments | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 enchantments | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 enchantments | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 enchantments | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 enchantments | det |
| 8 | enchantments | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 affirm | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Fairy | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Fairy | det |
| 11 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enchantments | nmod |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 worked | nsubj |
| 13 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Fairy | acl:relcl |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 change | det |
| 15 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 worked | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 caused | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 caused | cc |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 love | det |
| 19 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 caused | nsubj |
| 20 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 21 caused | advmod |
| 21 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 affirm | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 metamorphosis | det |
| 23 | metamorphosis | metamorphosis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 caused | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 affirm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affirm | present | Some | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is a | past | Tuft | the enchantments | of the Fairy | tree rules | |||
| 3 | work | past | the Fairy | this change | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent change=Material | ||||
| 4 | cause | past | that love | the metamorphosis | alone property | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition metamorphosis=Patient |
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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