The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 25

To this great desire all else must yield, and Fanny would rather be fair in drugget than be a Queen with an ugly face.

Who acts: Fanny · What happens: yield, be · To what, where: drugget

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	To	to	ADP	_	4 desire	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 desire	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 desire	amod
4	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yield	obl
5	all	all	ADV	_	8 yield	advmod
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 all	advmod
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 yield	aux
8	yield	yield	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fair	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fair	cc
11	Fanny	Fanny	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 fair	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 fair	aux
13	rather	rather	ADV	_	15 fair	advmod
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 fair	cop
15	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 yield	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 drugget	case
17	drugget	drugget	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fair	obl
18	than	than	ADP	_	21 Queen	case
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 Queen	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 Queen	det
21	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 fair	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 face	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 face	det
24	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 face	amod
25	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fair	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 yield	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	yield	must			to this great desire; all property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to desire=Theme
2	is	would	Fanny	drugget	with a ugly face; fair property	tree rules
3	is	infinitive			than a Queen	tree rules

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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