The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 48

Perchance, the Queen, who did not lack self-esteem, exacted this oath firmly believing that there was not her equal in the world, and so felt assured that the King would never marry again.

Who acts: Perchance, King · What happens: not lack, exact, believe, be, feel, assure · To what, where: self esteem, oath · 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 (Perchance, King), 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	Perchance	perchance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 exacted	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Queen	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Perchance	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lack	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lack	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lack	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 lack	advmod
9	lack	lack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Perchance	conj
10	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 esteem	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 self	punct
12	esteem	esteem	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lack	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Perchance	punct
14	exacted	exact	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 oath	det
16	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 exacted	obj
17	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	14 exacted	advmod
18	believing	believe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 exacted	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 was	mark
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 was	expl
21	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 believing	ccomp
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 equal	advmod
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 equal	nmod:poss
24	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 was	ccomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 world	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 world	det
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 equal	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 felt	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 felt	cc
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 felt	advmod
31	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 exacted	conj
32	assured	assure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 felt	xcomp
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 marry	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 King	det
35	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 marry	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 marry	aux
37	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	38 marry	advmod
38	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 assured	advcl
39	again	again	ADV	_	38 marry	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 exacted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lack	past · do-support	Perchance	self esteem				tree rules
2	exact	past	Perchance	this oath			firmly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme
3	believe	gerund	Perchance not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	be	past			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	feel	past	Perchance not said here					vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	assure	participle	Perchance not said here					vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition
7	not marry	would	the King			again		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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