The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 141
It would indeed be a sin to place in danger two lives so dear to me.
Who acts: thought · What happens: be · To what, where: sin
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 (thought), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sin | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 sin | aux |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 sin | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sin | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sin | det |
| 6 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sin | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 danger | case |
| 10 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | nmod |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 lives | nummod |
| 12 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 danger | conj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 dear | advmod |
| 14 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 danger | appos |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 dear | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | thought | a sin | to place in danger and two lives; indeed 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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