The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 18

So, having now but one wish left, he had all but resolved to make good use of it without further delay, and, before any other mischance could befall, to wish himself a kingdom of his own.

Who acts: wish, one wish, other mischance · What happens: have, leave, resolve, make, befall, wish · To what, where: good use, kingdom, mischance, beauty

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 (wish, one wish, other mischance), 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	_	11 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 had	advcl
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 having	advmod
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 left	cc
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 wish	nummod
7	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	nsubj
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 having	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 having	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	all	all	ADV	_	11 had	advmod
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 resolved	cc
14	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 had	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 make	mark
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 resolved	xcomp
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 use	amod
18	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 use	nmod
21	without	without	ADP	_	23 delay	case
22	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 delay	amod
23	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 befall	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 befall	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 befall	punct
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	32 befall	mark
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 mischance	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mischance	amod
30	mischance	mischance	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 befall	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 befall	aux
32	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 wish	punct
34	to	to	PART	_	35 wish	mark
35	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 befall	conj
36	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 wish	iobj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 kingdom	det
38	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wish	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 own	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 own	nmod:poss
41	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 kingdom	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	wish not said here			now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	leave	participle	one wish					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	wish				all property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	resolve	past	wish not said here					tree rules
5	make	to-infinitive	wish not said here	good use of beauty			without further delay	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product
6	befall	could	any other mischance					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	wish	to-infinitive	any other mischance not said here	a kingdom of mischance's own	mischance			tree rules
8	use			beauty				nom use «act transitive»: of=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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