The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 128
But the fervency of his love caused him such great agitation that the same night he was seized by a terrible fever, and was soon at death's door.
Who acts: fervency, terrible fever · What happens: cause, seize, be, love · To what, where: farm, same night, door
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 (fervency, terrible fever), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 caused | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fervency | det |
| 3 | fervency | fervency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caused | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 love | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 love | nmod:poss |
| 6 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fervency | nmod |
| 7 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 caused | obj |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 agitation | amod |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 agitation | amod |
| 11 | agitation | agitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caused | obj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 seized | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 night | amod |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seized | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seized | aux:pass |
| 18 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 agitation | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 fever | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fever | det |
| 21 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fever | amod |
| 22 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seized | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 door | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 door | cc |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 door | cop |
| 26 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 door | advmod |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 door | case |
| 28 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 door | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 death | case |
| 30 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caused | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | the fervency of fervency's love | farm | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer he=Theme agitation=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | seize | past · passive | a terrible fever | the same night | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | death's door | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | love | fervency | nom love «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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