The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 162
And drawing the emerald from under his pillow he added: "To prove the truth of this, I desire to marry her to whom this ring belongs.
Who acts: skill, ring · What happens: draw, add, prove, desire, marry, belong · To what, where: emerald, pillow, truth · 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 (skill, ring), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 added | cc |
| 2 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 added | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 emerald | det |
| 4 | emerald | emerald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drawing | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 pillow | case |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 pillow | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 8 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 added | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 added | nsubj |
| 10 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 prove | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 prove | punct |
| 13 | To | to | PART | _ | 14 prove | mark |
| 14 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 added | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 truth | det |
| 16 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prove | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 this | case |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 truth | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 desire | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 desire | nsubj |
| 21 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 prove | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 marry | mark |
| 23 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 desire | xcomp |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 marry | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 whom | case |
| 26 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 marry | obl |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 ring | det |
| 28 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 belongs | nsubj |
| 29 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 whom | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | gerund | skill not said here | the emerald | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emerald=Theme | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | skill | skill's pillow | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | prove in a quote | to-infinitive | the truth of this | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme | |||||
| 4 | desire in a quote | present | skill | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | marry not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | skill not said here | truth | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient to whom=Co-Patient | ||||
| 6 | belong in a quote | present | this ring | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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