The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 115
She entwined flowers and diamonds in her lovely hair with admirable art, and often she sighed that she had no witness of her beauty save the sheep and geese, who loved her just as much in the horrible donkey-skin after which she had been named at the farm.
Who acts: Princess, witness, sheep · What happens: entwine, sigh, have, save, love, name · To what, where: flowers, lovely hair, witness, sheep, Princess, farm
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 (Princess, witness, sheep), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entwined | nsubj |
| 2 | entwined | entwine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 entwined | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 diamonds | cc |
| 5 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flowers | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hair | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hair | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hair | amod |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entwined | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 art | case |
| 11 | admirable | admirable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 art | amod |
| 12 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entwined | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sighed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sighed | cc |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 sighed | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sighed | nsubj |
| 17 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entwined | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 had | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sighed | ccomp |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 witness | det |
| 22 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 beauty | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 25 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 witness | nmod |
| 26 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 had | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sheep | det |
| 28 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 save | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 geese | cc |
| 30 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sheep | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 loved | punct |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 loved | nsubj |
| 33 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 sheep | conj |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 loved | obj |
| 35 | just | just | ADV | _ | 37 much | advmod |
| 36 | as | as | ADV | _ | 37 much | advmod |
| 37 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 loved | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 skin | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 skin | det |
| 40 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 skin | amod |
| 41 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 skin | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 donkey | punct |
| 43 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 much | nmod |
| 44 | after | after | ADP | _ | 45 which | case |
| 45 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 named | obl |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 named | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 named | aux |
| 48 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 49 named | aux:pass |
| 49 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 skin | acl:relcl |
| 50 | at | at | ADP | _ | 52 farm | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 farm | det |
| 52 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 named | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entwined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entwine | past | Princess | flowers and diamonds | Princess's lovely hair | with admirable art | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent flower=Patient with art=Co-Patient | ||
| 2 | sigh | past | Princess | often property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Princess | no witness of Princess's beauty | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | save | infinitive | no witness of Princess's beauty not said here | the sheep and geese | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | ||||
| 5 | love | past | the sheep and geese | Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | name | past · perfect · passive | Princess | the farm | after the horrible donkey skin | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/115/