The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 153

The Prince took the cake greedily from the man's hands, and ate it with such voracity that the doctors who were present did not fail to say that this haste was not a good sign.

Who acts: Prince, doctors, haste · What happens: take, eat, be, not fail, say, not be · To what, where: cake, hands, good sign · 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 (Prince, doctors, haste), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cake	det
5	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 hands	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hands	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 man	case
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ate	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ate	cc
14	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ate	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 voracity	case
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 voracity	amod
18	voracity	voracity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ate	obl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 fail	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 doctors	det
21	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fail	nsubj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 present	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 present	cop
24	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 doctors	acl:relcl
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fail	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 fail	advmod
27	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ate	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 say	mark
29	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 fail	xcomp
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 sign	mark
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 haste	det
32	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sign	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 sign	cop
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 sign	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 sign	det
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 sign	amod
37	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 say	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the Prince	the cake	the man's hands	greedily property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cake=Theme from hand=Initial_Location
2	eat	past	the Prince not said here	cake		with such voracity	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	is	past	the doctors			present property	tree rules
4	not fail	past · do-support	the doctors				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the doctors not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	not is a	past	this haste	a good sign			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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