The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 52
At first this request seemed hard to him and made him shed fresh tears.
Who acts: request, King · What happens: seem, make, shed · To what, where: fresh tears
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 (request, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 seemed | obl |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 request | det |
| 4 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seemed | nsubj |
| 5 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seemed | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hard | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seemed | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shed | nsubj |
| 12 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | ccomp |
| 13 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tears | amod |
| 14 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | this request | hard property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | this request not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shed | past | King | fresh tears | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source |
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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