The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 138
"Ah! my son," replied the Queen, "we will spare nothing to save your life.
Who acts: son, we · What happens: reply, spare, save · To what, where: nothing, life · 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 (son, we), 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 | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 son | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Queen | det |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spare | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 spare | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 spare | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 spare | aux |
| 15 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | conj |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 spare | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 save | mark |
| 18 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 nothing | acl |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 save | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | my son | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | spare in a quote | future | we | nothing | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent nothing=Asset | ||||
| 3 | save in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | your life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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