The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 44

The Queen, feeling her last hour approach, said to her husband, who was dissolved in tears: "It is well that I should speak to you of a certain matter before I die: if, perchance, you should desire to marry again...."

Who acts: Queen, approach, perchance · What happens: feel, say, dissolve, be, die, desire · To what, where: last hour approach, husband, tears · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Queen, approach, perchance), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 feeling	punct
4	feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Queen	acl
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 approach	nmod:poss
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 approach	amod
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 approach	compound
8	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feeling	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Queen	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 husband	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 husband	nmod:poss
13	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dissolved	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 dissolved	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dissolved	aux:pass
17	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 husband	acl:relcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 tears	case
19	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 dissolved	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 speak	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 speak	punct
22	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 speak	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 speak	cop
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 speak	advmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 speak	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 speak	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 speak	aux
28	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 speak	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 matter	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 matter	det
33	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 matter	amod
34	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 speak	obl
35	before	before	SCONJ	_	37 die	mark
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 die	nsubj
37	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 speak	advcl
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 desire	punct
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 desire	mark
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 perchance	punct
41	perchance	perchance	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 desire	nsubj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 perchance	punct
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 desire	nsubj
44	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 desire	aux
45	desire	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	parataxis
46	to	to	PART	_	47 marry	mark
47	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 desire	xcomp
48	again	again	ADV	_	47 marry	advmod
49	....	....	PUNCT	_	45 desire	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 desire	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	gerund	the Queen not said here	Queen's last hour approach					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent approach=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Queen		Queen's husband				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient clause=Topic
3	dissolve	past · passive		Queen's husband		tears			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is in a quote	should · present	approach		Queen's husband = husband			of a certain matter; speak, well property	tree rules
5	die in a quote	present	the Queen = queen						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	desire a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	should	perchance						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	marry not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	perchance not said here				again		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
8	approach		Queen						nom approach «act 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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