The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 41
Since the vicissitudes of life wait on Kings as much as on their subjects, and good is always mingled with ill, it so befell that the Queen was suddenly attacked by a fatal illness, and, in spite of science, and the skill of the doctors, no remedy could be found.
Who acts: vicissitudes, litter, fatal illness · What happens: wait, mingle, befall, attack, find, spite · To what, where: good, Queen, spite, science
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 (vicissitudes, litter, fatal illness), 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 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 6 wait | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 vicissitudes | det |
| 3 | vicissitudes | vicissitude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wait | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 life | case |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vicissitudes | nmod |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 befell | advcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Kings | case |
| 8 | Kings | King | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 wait | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wait | advcl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 subjects | case |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 subjects | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 14 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 much | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mingled | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mingled | cc |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mingled | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 mingled | aux:pass |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 mingled | advmod |
| 20 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wait | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 ill | case |
| 22 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mingled | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wait | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 befell | nsubj |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 befell | advmod |
| 26 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 attacked | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Queen | det |
| 29 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 attacked | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 attacked | aux:pass |
| 31 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 32 attacked | advmod |
| 32 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 befell | advcl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 illness | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 illness | det |
| 35 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 illness | amod |
| 36 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 attacked | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 found | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 found | cc |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 spite | punct |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 spite | case |
| 41 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 found | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 science | case |
| 43 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 spite | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 skill | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 skill | cc |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 skill | det |
| 47 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 spite | conj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 doctors | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 doctors | det |
| 50 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 skill | nmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 spite | punct |
| 52 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 53 remedy | det |
| 53 | remedy | remedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 found | nsubj:pass |
| 54 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 56 found | aux |
| 55 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 56 found | aux:pass |
| 56 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 befell | conj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 befell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present | the vicissitudes of life | on Kings | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on king=Location | ||||
| 2 | mingle | present · passive | good | with ill; always property | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with ill=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | befall | past | litter | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | attack | past · passive | a fatal illness | the Queen | suddenly property | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 5 | find | could · passive | spite of science and the skill of the doctors | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 6 | spite | science | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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