The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 136

"Madam," he said at last, in a very feeble voice, "I am not so base that I desire the crown of my father, rather may Heaven grant him life for many years, and that I may always be the most faithful and the most respectful of his subjects!

Who acts: sorrow, Heaven · What happens: say, not be, desire, grant, be, crown · To what, where: last, base, crown, life, sorrow, father · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sorrow, Heaven), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
2	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 voice	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 voice	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 voice	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 feeble	advmod
13	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 voice	amod
14	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 base	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 base	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 base	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 base	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 base	advmod
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 base	advmod
21	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 voice	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 desire	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 desire	nsubj
24	desire	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 base	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 crown	det
26	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 desire	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 father	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 father	nmod:poss
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 crown	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 grant	punct
31	rather	rather	ADV	_	34 grant	advmod
32	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 grant	aux
33	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 grant	nsubj
34	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 desire	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 grant	obj
36	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 grant	obj
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 years	case
38	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 years	amod
39	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 grant	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 faithful	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 faithful	cc
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 faithful	mark
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 faithful	nsubj
44	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 faithful	aux
45	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	49 faithful	advmod
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 faithful	cop
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 faithful	det
48	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	49 faithful	advmod
49	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	parataxis
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 respectful	cc
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 respectful	det
52	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	53 respectful	advmod
53	respectful	respectful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 faithful	conj
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 subjects	case
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 subjects	nmod:poss
56	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 respectful	obl
57	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	sorrow			last		in a feeble voice and base	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not is a in a quote	present	sorrow	base					tree rules
3	desire in a quote	present	sorrow	the crown of my father					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot crown=Theme
4	grant in a quote	may	Heaven	life	sorrow		year		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal life=Theme
5	is in a quote	may	sorrow					always, faithful property	tree rules
6	be in a quote		sorrow not said here					of sorrow's subjects	tree rules
7	crown in a quote			my father					nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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