The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 206

_It scarce may be believed, This tale of Donkey-skin; But laughing children in the home; Yea, mothers, and grandmothers too, Are little moved by facts!

Who acts: facts, Donkey skin · What happens: believe, laugh, move, tell · To what, where: love, children, home, mothers · 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 (facts, Donkey skin), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 believed	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 believed	nsubj:pass
3	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 believed	nsubj:pass
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 believed	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 believed	aux:pass
6	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tale	punct
8	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 tale	det
9	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 believed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 skin	case
11	Donkey	Donkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 skin	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Donkey	punct
13	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tale	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 laughing	punct
15	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 laughing	cc
16	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 believed	advcl
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 laughing	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 home	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 home	det
20	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 laughing	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 mothers	punct
22	Yea	yea	INTJ	_	24 mothers	discourse
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Yea	punct
24	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 believed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 grandmothers	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 grandmothers	cc
27	grandmothers	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 mothers	conj
28	too	too	ADV	_	27 grandmothers	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 moved	punct
30	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 moved	aux:pass
31	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 moved	advmod
32	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 mothers	acl
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 facts	case
34	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 moved	obl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 believed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	believe	may · passive		love		this tale of Donkey skin obl; mothers and grandmothers obl	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	laugh	gerund		children	the home		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
3	move	present · passive	facts	mothers and grandmothers not said here		little property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	tell		Donkey skin				nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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