The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 130
In vain she promised great rewards to the doctors; though they exerted all their skill, nothing would cure the Prince.
Who acts: Queen, doctors, nothing · What happens: promise, exert, cure · To what, where: great rewards, vain, skill, Prince
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, doctors, nothing), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 vain | case |
| 2 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 promised | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rewards | amod |
| 6 | rewards | reward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 promised | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 doctors | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 doctors | det |
| 9 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rewards | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 exerted | punct |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 exerted | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 exerted | nsubj |
| 13 | exerted | exert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | conj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 skill | det:predet |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 skill | nmod:poss |
| 16 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exerted | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cure | punct |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 cure | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 cure | aux |
| 20 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 exerted | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Prince | det |
| 22 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 cure | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | Queen | great rewards | vain | to the doctors goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent reward=Theme to doctor=Goal | ||
| 2 | exert | past | doctors = doctor | doctors's skill | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cure | would | nothing | the Prince | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer prince=Source |
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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