The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 35
His good fortune was made even greater by the choice he had made for wife of a Princess as beautiful as she was virtuous, with whom he lived in perfect happiness.
Who acts: choice, King, Princess · What happens: make, be, live · To what, where: good fortune, choice, perfect happiness
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 (choice, King, Princess), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fortune | amod |
| 3 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 greater | advmod |
| 7 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 made | xcomp |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 choice | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 choice | det |
| 10 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | aux |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 choice | acl:relcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 wife | case |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Princess | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 18 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wife | nmod |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 beautiful | advmod |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Princess | amod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 virtuous | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 virtuous | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 virtuous | cop |
| 24 | virtuous | virtuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 beautiful | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 whom | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 whom | case |
| 27 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 virtuous | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 lived | nsubj |
| 29 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 whom | acl:relcl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 happiness | case |
| 31 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 happiness | amod |
| 32 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lived | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | the choice | King's good fortune | great property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | |||
| 2 | make | past · perfect | King | the choice not said here | for wife of a Princess | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent choice=Product for wife=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | is | past | Princess | virtuous property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | past | King | perfect happiness | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in happiness=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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