The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 159
"My son, my dear son," cried the affected monarch, "tell us the name of her whom you desire: we swear that we will give her to you.
Who acts: son, you, we · What happens: cry, affect, tell, desire, swear, give · To what, where: affected monarch, name, us, Queen · 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, you, 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 | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 son | amod |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 son | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 monarch | det |
| 12 | affected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 monarch | amod |
| 13 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cried | conj |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | iobj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 name | det |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 whom | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 whom | nmod:poss |
| 22 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 name | nmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 desire | nsubj |
| 24 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 whom | acl:relcl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 swear | punct |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 swear | nsubj |
| 27 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 give | mark |
| 29 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 give | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 give | aux |
| 31 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 swear | ccomp |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 give | iobj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 you | case |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 give | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | My son | the affected monarch | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monarch=Topic | ||||
| 2 | affect | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | My son not said here | the name | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient name=Topic | |||
| 4 | desire in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | swear in a quote | present | we | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | give in a quote | future | we | Queen | to you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to you=Recipient |
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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