The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 27
He was thankful enough to use his remaining wish to a more humble purpose, and forthwith relieved his wife of her encumbrance.
Who acts: woodcutter · What happens: be, use, relieve, wish · To what, where: remaining wish, 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 (woodcutter), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thankful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thankful | cop |
| 3 | thankful | thankful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 thankful | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 use | mark |
| 6 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thankful | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wish | nmod:poss |
| 8 | remaining | remaining | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wish | amod |
| 9 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 use | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 purpose | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 purpose | det |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 humble | advmod |
| 13 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 purpose | amod |
| 14 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 use | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 relieved | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 relieved | cc |
| 17 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 18 relieved | advmod |
| 18 | relieved | relieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thankful | parataxis |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 relieved | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 encumbrance | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 encumbrance | nmod:poss |
| 23 | encumbrance | encumbrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wife | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thankful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | woodcutter | enough, thankful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | to-infinitive | woodcutter not said here | woodcutter's remaining wish | to a humble purpose | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | |||
| 3 | relieve | past | woodcutter's wife of wife's encumbrance | forthwith property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wife=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | wish | woodcutter | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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