The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 36
Now, of this chaste marriage was born a daughter endowed with so many gifts that they had no regret because other children were not given to them.
Who acts: gifts · What happens: bear, endow, have, not give · To what, where: daughter, regret, other children, gifts
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 (gifts), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 born | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 marriage | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 marriage | det |
| 5 | chaste | chaste | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 marriage | amod |
| 6 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 born | obl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 born | aux:pass |
| 8 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 daughter | det |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 born | obj |
| 11 | endowed | endow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 daughter | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 gifts | case |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 many | advmod |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 gifts | amod |
| 15 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 born | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 had | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 born | advcl |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 regret | det |
| 20 | regret | regret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 given | mark |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 children | amod |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 given | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 given | aux:pass |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 given | advmod |
| 26 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 had | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 given | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | a daughter | now | of this chaste marriage; with many gifts | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: daughter=Patient | |||
| 2 | endow | participle | a daughter not said here | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | gifts = gift | no regret | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regret=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not give | past · passive | other children | gifts = gift | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to they=Recipient |
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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