The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 160

Even though she were the vilest of slaves."

Who acts: Queen · What happens: be

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 (Queen), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	6 vilest	advmod
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 vilest	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 vilest	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vilest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vilest	det
6	vilest	vile	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 slaves	case
8	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 vilest	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 vilest	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 vilest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Queen					of slaves; vile 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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