The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 129
The Queen, who had no other child, was in despair because all remedies proved useless.
Who acts: Queen, remedies · What happens: have, be, prove · To what, where: other child, despair
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 (Queen, remedies), 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 | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 despair | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Queen | acl:relcl |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 child | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 child | amod |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Queen | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 despair | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 despair | case |
| 12 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 proved | mark |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 remedies | det |
| 15 | remedies | remedy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 proved | nsubj |
| 16 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 despair | acl:relcl |
| 17 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 proved | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 despair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Queen | no other child | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Queen | despair | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | prove | past | all remedies | despair not said here | useless property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent despair=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.
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