The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 49

Be this as it may, at length she died, and never did husband make so much lamentation; the King wept and sobbed day and night, and the punctilious fulfilment of the rites of widower-hood, even the smallest, was his sole occupation.

Who acts: perchance, length, King, punctilious fulfilment · What happens: be, die, make, weep, sob, fulfil · To what, where: length, much lamentation, sole occupation, rites

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, length, King, punctilious fulfilment), 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 length	cop
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Be	nsubj
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 length	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 length	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 length	aux
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 length	punct
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 length	case
8	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	nsubj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 died	nsubj
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 length	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 did	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 did	cc
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 did	advmod
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 make	aux
15	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 did	obj
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lamentation	amod
19	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 wept	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 King	det
22	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 wept	nsubj
23	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 make	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sobbed	cc
25	sobbed	sob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 wept	conj
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sobbed	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 night	cc
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 day	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 occupation	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 occupation	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fulfilment	det
32	punctilious	punctilious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fulfilment	amod
33	fulfilment	fulfilment	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 occupation	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 rites	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 rites	det
36	rites	rite	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 fulfilment	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 hood	case
38	widower	widower	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 hood	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 widower	punct
40	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 smallest	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 smallest	punct
42	even	even	ADV	_	44 smallest	advmod
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 smallest	det
44	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 rites	amod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fulfilment	punct
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 occupation	cop
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 occupation	nmod:poss
48	sole	sole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 occupation	amod
49	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wept	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is	may · infinitive	perchance		length		tree rules
2	die	past	length	length not said here			tree rules
3	make	past · do-support	length	much lamentation			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lamentation=Product
4	weep	past	the King				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sob	past	the King not said here			day	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	the punctilious fulfilment of the rites	King's sole occupation			tree rules
7	fulfil			the rites			nom fulfilment «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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