The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 168

So the country girls had to be tried, but pretty though they all were, they all had fingers that were too fat.

Who acts: country girls, heralds, fingers · What happens: have, try, 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 (country girls, heralds, fingers), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girls	det
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 girls	compound
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 tried	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 tried	aux:pass
8	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 had	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
11	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	19 had	advmod
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 they	det
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 had	cop
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 had	advmod
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
20	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 fat	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fat	cop
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 fat	advmod
24	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fingers	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	have	past	the country girls		tree rules
2	try	to-infinitive · passive	the country girls not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	is	past	heralds = herald	have, pretty property	tree rules
4	is	past	fingers	fat 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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