The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 22
In this dilemma he resolved to put the case to Fanny, and to leave her to decide whether she would rather be a Queen, with this most horrible appendage marring her good looks, or remain a peasant wife, but with her shapely nose relieved of this untoward addition.
Who acts: mischance, horrible appendage · What happens: resolve, put, leave, decide, be, mar · To what, where: dilemma, case, Fanny, Queen, good looks, peasant wife
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 (mischance, horrible appendage), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 dilemma | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 dilemma | det |
| 3 | dilemma | dilemma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 resolved | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 resolved | nsubj |
| 5 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 put | mark |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 resolved | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 case | det |
| 9 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Fanny | case |
| 11 | Fanny | Fanny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leave | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 leave | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 leave | mark |
| 15 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 resolved | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 leave | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 decide | mark |
| 18 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 leave | advcl |
| 19 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 21 would | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 would | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 decide | ccomp |
| 22 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 25 Queen | advmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 Queen | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Queen | det |
| 25 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 would | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 appendage | punct |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 appendage | case |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 appendage | det |
| 29 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 30 horrible | advmod |
| 30 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 appendage | amod |
| 31 | appendage | appendage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 decide | obl |
| 32 | marring | mar | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 appendage | acl |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 looks | nmod:poss |
| 34 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 looks | amod |
| 35 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 marring | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 remain | punct |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 remain | cc |
| 38 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 decide | conj |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 wife | det |
| 40 | peasant | peasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 wife | amod |
| 41 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 remain | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 relieved | punct |
| 43 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 48 relieved | cc |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 nose | case |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 nose | nmod:poss |
| 46 | shapely | shapely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 nose | amod |
| 47 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 relieved | obl |
| 48 | relieved | relieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 resolved | conj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 addition | case |
| 50 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 52 addition | det |
| 51 | untoward | untoward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 addition | amod |
| 52 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 relieved | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | mischance | this dilemma | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | mischance not said here | the case | Fanny | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent case=Goal | |||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | mischance not said here | Fanny | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | decide | to-infinitive | mischance not said here | with this horrible appendage | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with appendage=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | infinitive | a Queen | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | mar | gerund | this horrible appendage not said here | Fanny's good looks | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | remain | infinitive | mischance not said here | a peasant wife | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wife=Attribute | ||||
| 8 | relieve | participle | mischance not said here | with Fanny's shapely nose; of this untoward addition | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer of addition=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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