The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 196
The Lilac-fairy, who, as was right, presided over all, had recommended this course to prevent trouble.
What happens: be, preside, recommend, prevent · To what, where: Lilac fairy, all, trouble
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: 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 | 4 fairy | det |
| 2 | Lilac | lilac | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fairy | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lilac | punct |
| 4 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 recommended | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 presided | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 presided | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 presided | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 right | mark |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 right | cop |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 presided | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 presided | punct |
| 12 | presided | preside | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fairy | acl:relcl |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 presided | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fairy | punct |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 recommended | aux |
| 17 | recommended | recommend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 course | det |
| 19 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 recommended | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 prevent | mark |
| 21 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 recommended | advcl |
| 22 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 prevent | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 recommended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | right property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | preside | participle · passive | the Lilac fairy | all | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | recommend | past · perfect · passive | the Lilac fairy | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | prevent | to-infinitive | trouble | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer trouble=Theme |
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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