The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 21

With what grace would she sit beside me on the throne with a yard of black pudding for a nose?"

Who acts: Fanny · What happens: sit · To what, where: throne

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 (Fanny), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 grace	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 grace	det
3	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sit	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sit	nsubj
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 sit	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 throne	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 throne	det
11	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 yard	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 yard	det
14	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 pudding	case
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pudding	amod
17	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 yard	nmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 nose	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 nose	det
20	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sit	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	would	Fanny			the throne		with what grace; beside me; with a yard of black pudding; for a nose	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside i=Location

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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