The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 114
The beautiful Princess looked at herself, and with good reason, admired her appearance so much that she resolved to wear her magnificent dresses in turn on holidays and Sundays for her own amusement, and this she regularly did.
Who acts: beautiful Princess, Princess, this · What happens: look, admire, resolve, wear, do, amuse · To what, where: appearance, magnificent dresses, turn
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful Princess, Princess, this), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Princess | amod |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 herself | case |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 looked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 admired | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 admired | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 reason | case |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 reason | amod |
| 11 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 admired | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reason | punct |
| 13 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 15 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 admired | obj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 admired | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 resolved | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 resolved | nsubj |
| 20 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 admired | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 wear | mark |
| 22 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 resolved | xcomp |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 dresses | nmod:poss |
| 24 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 dresses | amod |
| 25 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wear | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 turn | case |
| 27 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wear | obl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 holidays | case |
| 29 | holidays | holiday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wear | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Sundays | cc |
| 31 | Sundays | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 holidays | conj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 amusement | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 amusement | nmod:poss |
| 34 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 amusement | amod |
| 35 | amusement | amusement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 holidays | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 did | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 did | cc |
| 38 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 did | nsubj |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 did | nsubj |
| 40 | regularly | regularly | ADV | _ | 41 did | advmod |
| 41 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the beautiful Princess | at Princess | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at herself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | admire | past | the beautiful Princess not said here | Princess's appearance | with good reason | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer appearance=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | resolve | past | Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wear | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | Princess's magnificent dresses | turn | on holidays for Princess's own amusement and Sundays | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | ||
| 5 | do | past | this | regularly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | amuse | Princess | nom amusement «feeling 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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