The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 191

The Princess, confused by all these caresses and by the love of the handsome young Prince, was about to thank them when suddenly the ceiling opened, and the Lilac-fairy descended in a chariot made of the branches and flowers from which she took her name, and, with great charm, told the Princess's story.

Who acts: Princess, ceiling, Lilac fairy, great charm · What happens: confuse, be, thank, open, descend, make · To what, where: Princess, Princes, chariot, name, branches, story · 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 (Princess, ceiling, Lilac fairy, great charm), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 about	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 confused	punct
4	confused	confuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Princess	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 caresses	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 caresses	det:predet
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 caresses	det
8	caresses	caress	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 confused	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 love	cc
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 love	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 love	det
12	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 caresses	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 Prince	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Prince	det
15	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Prince	amod
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Prince	amod
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 love	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Princess	punct
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 about	cop
20	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
21	to	to	PART	_	22 thank	mark
22	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 about	xcomp
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thank	obj
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 opened	advmod
25	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	28 opened	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ceiling	det
27	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 opened	nsubj
28	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 thank	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 descended	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 descended	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fairy	det
32	Lilac	Lilac	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 fairy	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 Lilac	punct
34	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 descended	nsubj
35	descended	descend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 about	parataxis
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 chariot	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 chariot	det
38	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 descended	obl
39	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 chariot	acl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 branches	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 branches	det
42	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 made	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 flowers	cc
44	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 branches	conj
45	from	from	ADP	_	46 which	case
46	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 took	obl
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 took	nsubj
48	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 branches	acl:relcl
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 name	nmod:poss
50	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 took	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 told	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 told	cc
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 charm	punct
54	with	with	ADP	_	56 charm	case
55	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 charm	amod
56	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 told	nsubj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 charm	punct
58	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 about	parataxis
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 Princess	det
60	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 story	nmod:poss
61	's	's	PART	_	60 Princess	case
62	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 told	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	confuse	participle		the Princess not said here			by all caresses and the love of the handsome young Prince	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	the Princess				about property	tree rules
3	thank speech: thank	to-infinitive	the Princess not said here		Princes = prince			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	open	past	the ceiling				suddenly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	descend	participle	the Lilac fairy			a chariot		vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	make	participle		a chariot not said here			of the branches and flowers	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
7	take	past	Princess	Princess's name		the branches and flowers		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent name=Theme from which=Initial_Location
8	tell speech: assert	past	great charm	the Princess's story				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
9	love			the handsome young Prince				nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient
10	name		Princess					nom name «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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