The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 178

Now, she loved the Prince, and, as true love is timorous and has no vanity, she was in perpetual fear that some other lady would be found to have a finger as small as hers.

Who acts: Princess, true love, perpetual fear, other lady · What happens: love, be, have, find · To what, where: Prince, vanity, perpetual fear, other lady, finger

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 (Princess, true love, perpetual fear, other lady), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 loved	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 loved	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 loved	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 timorous	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 and	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 timorous	mark
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 love	amod
12	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 timorous	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 timorous	cop
14	timorous	timorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 loved	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 has	cc
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 timorous	conj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 vanity	det
18	vanity	vanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fear	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fear	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fear	cop
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 fear	case
23	perpetual	perpetual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fear	amod
24	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 timorous	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 found	mark
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 lady	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lady	amod
28	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	nsubj:pass
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 found	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 found	aux:pass
31	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 fear	acl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 have	mark
33	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 found	xcomp
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 finger	det
35	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	obj
36	as	as	ADP	_	37 small	case
37	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 have	xcomp
38	as	as	ADP	_	39 hers	case
39	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 small	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	Princess	the Prince		now		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus
2	is	present	true love				timorous property	tree rules
3	have	present	true love not said here	no vanity				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vanity=Patient
4	is	past	Princess		perpetual fear			tree rules
5	find	would · passive	perpetual fear not said here	some other lady				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
6	have	to-infinitive	some other lady not said here	a finger			small property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient

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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