The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 137

As to the Princesses that you speak of, I have never yet thought of marriage, and you well know that, subject as I am to your wishes, I shall obey you always, even though it be painful to me."

Who acts: you, I, marriage · What happens: speak, think, know, be, obey · To what, where: Princesses, you, me · 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 (you, I, marriage), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 Princesses	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Princesses	det
4	Princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 thought	obl
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 speak	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 speak	nsubj
7	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Princesses	acl:relcl
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 speak	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Princesses	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 thought	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 thought	aux
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 yet	advmod
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	14 thought	advmod
14	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 marriage	case
16	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thought	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 know	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 know	advmod
21	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 thought	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 subject	mark
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 subject	punct
24	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 know	ccomp
25	as	as	ADP	_	30 wishes	case
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 wishes	nsubj
27	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 wishes	cop
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 wishes	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wishes	nmod:poss
30	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 know	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 obey	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 obey	nsubj
33	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 obey	aux
34	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 know	conj
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 obey	obj
36	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	34 obey	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 painful	punct
38	even	even	ADV	_	42 painful	advmod
39	though	though	SCONJ	_	42 painful	mark
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 painful	nsubj
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 painful	cop
42	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 obey	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 me	case
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 painful	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	you	the Princesses				tree rules
2	think speech: other	present · perfect	I			yet	as the Princesses; of marriage	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	present	you				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	I				as your wishes	tree rules
5	obey	shall	I	you			always property	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
6	is	infinitive	marriage		me		painful property	tree rules

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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