The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 167

First the Princesses arrived, then the duchesses, and the marquises, and the baronesses; but though they did all they could to make their fingers small, none could put on the ring.

Who acts: Princesses, heralds, none · What happens: arrive, do, make, put · To what, where: duchesses, all, fingers, ring

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 (Princesses, heralds, none), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 arrived	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princesses	det
3	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 duchesses	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 duchesses	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 duchesses	det
8	duchesses	duchess	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 arrived	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 marquises	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 marquises	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 marquises	det
12	marquises	marquis	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 arrived	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 baronesses	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 baronesses	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 baronesses	det
16	baronesses	baroness	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 arrived	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 make	cc
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 did	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 did	nsubj
21	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 make	advcl
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 did	obj
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 make	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 make	aux
25	to	to	PART	_	26 make	mark
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 arrived	conj
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 fingers	nmod:poss
28	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 make	obj
29	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 make	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 put	punct
31	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	33 put	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 put	aux
33	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 make	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 ring	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ring	det
36	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 put	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	the Princesses	the duchesses		first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	heralds = herald	all			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
3	make	could	heralds = herald	heralds's fingers		small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset finger=Product
4	put	could	none		the ring		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on ring=Destination

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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