The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 16
Fanny was a comely young woman, and blest with good looks, and truth to tell, this new ornament did not set off her beauty.
Who acts: Fanny, new ornament · What happens: be, tell, not set off · To what, where: comely young woman, beauty · 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 (Fanny, new ornament), 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 | Fanny | Fanny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 woman | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 woman | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 4 | comely | comely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 blest | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 blest | cc |
| 9 | blest | blest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 looks | case |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 looks | amod |
| 12 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 blest | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 truth | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 truth | cc |
| 15 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 woman | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 tell | mark |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 truth | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 ornament | det |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ornament | amod |
| 21 | ornament | ornament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 set | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 set | advmod |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 woman | conj |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 set | compound:prt |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 27 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 woman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Fanny | a comely young woman and truth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Fanny not said here | with good looks | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Fanny not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not set off | past · do-support | this new ornament | ornament's beauty | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition beauty=Patient |
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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