The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 89
Perhaps he will take pity on us, especially if you please to beg it of him."
Who acts: gentleman, you · What happens: take, please, beg · To what, where: pity
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 (gentleman, 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 take | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 please | punct |
| 9 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 12 please | advmod |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 please | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 please | nsubj |
| 12 | please | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 beg | mark |
| 14 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 please | xcomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 beg | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 beg | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | gentleman | pity | on us; perhaps property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on we=Destination | |||
| 2 | please a condition, not said to happen | present | you | especially property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | you not said here | pity | of gentleman | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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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