The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 17

Yet it offered one advantage, that as it hung right before her mouth, it would thus effectively curb her speech.

Who acts: beauty, ornament · What happens: offer, hang, curb, speak · To what, where: one advantage, that, mouth, speech · 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 (beauty, 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	3 offered	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 offered	nsubj
3	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 advantage	nummod
5	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 offered	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hung	punct
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 hung	obj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 hung	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hung	nsubj
10	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 offered	conj
11	right	right	ADV	_	10 hung	advmod
12	before	before	ADP	_	14 mouth	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mouth	nmod:poss
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hung	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 curb	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 curb	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 curb	aux
18	thus	thus	ADV	_	20 curb	advmod
19	effectively	effectively	ADV	_	20 curb	advmod
20	curb	curb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 offered	advcl
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 speech	nmod:poss
22	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 curb	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	offer	past	beauty	one advantage			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme
2	hang	past	beauty	that	ornament's mouth	right property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme before mouth=Destination
3	curb	would	beauty	ornament's speech		effectively, thus property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Patient
4	speak		ornament				nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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