The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 9

They say farther, that his eyes, which were very squinting, seemed to her all the more bright and sparkling; that their irregularity passed in her judgment for a mark of a violent excess of love; and, in short, that his great red nose had, in her opinion, somewhat of the martial and heroic.

Who acts: qualities, eyes, great red nose, Princess · What happens: say, squint, seem, sparkle, pass, have · To what, where: Princess, irregularity, judgment, opinion, violent excess · 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 (qualities, eyes, great red nose, Princess), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 say	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seemed	punct
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 seemed	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 seemed	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 squinting	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 squinting	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 squinting	aux
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 squinting	advmod
12	squinting	squint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 eyes	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eyes	punct
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 say	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seemed	obl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 bright	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bright	det
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 bright	advmod
20	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 seemed	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sparkling	cc
22	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 bright	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 irregularity	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 irregularity	mark
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 irregularity	nmod:poss
26	irregularity	irregularity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	parataxis
27	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 irregularity	acl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 judgment	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 judgment	nmod:poss
30	judgment	judgment	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 passed	obl
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 mark	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 mark	det
33	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 judgment	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 excess	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 excess	det
36	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 excess	amod
37	excess	excess	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 mark	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 love	case
39	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 excess	nmod
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 short	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 short	cc
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 and	punct
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 short	case
44	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 say	parataxis
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 had	punct
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 had	mark
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 nose	nmod:poss
48	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 nose	amod
49	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 nose	amod
50	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 had	nsubj
51	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 short	parataxis
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 opinion	punct
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 opinion	case
54	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 opinion	nmod:poss
55	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 had	obj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 somewhat	punct
57	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	51 had	advmod
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 martial	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 martial	det
60	martial	martial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 somewhat	obl
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 heroic	cc
62	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 martial	conj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	qualities = quality				far property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	squint	past · progressive	hump's eyes					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seem	past	hump's eyes		Princess		bright property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	sparkle	gerund	hump's eyes not said here					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pass	participle		qualities's irregularity not said here		Princess's judgment for a mark of a violent excess of love		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in judgment=Location
6	have	past	hump's great red nose	Princess's opinion			somewhat property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient
7	judge		Princess				for a mark of a violent excess of love	nom judgment «cognition transitive»: poss=agent for=obl
8	mark			a violent excess of love				nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient
9	opine		Princess					nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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