The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 53

He pleaded the vows he had made to the Queen, and defied his counsellors to find a Princess more beautiful and better fashioned than was she, thinking this to be impossible.

Who acts: King · What happens: plead, make, defy, find, be, think · To what, where: vows, counsellors, Princess, this · 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pleaded	nsubj
2	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vows	det
4	vows	vow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pleaded	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 pleaded	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Queen	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queen	det
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 defied	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 defied	cc
13	defied	defy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pleaded	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 counsellors	nmod:poss
15	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 defied	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 find	mark
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 defied	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 Princess	det
19	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obj
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 beautiful	advmod
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 find	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fashioned	cc
23	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 fashioned	advmod
24	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 beautiful	conj
25	than	than	ADP	_	27 she	case
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 she	cop
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fashioned	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thinking	punct
29	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 beautiful	advcl
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 thinking	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	33 impossible	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 impossible	cop
33	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 thinking	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pleaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	plead speech: request	past	King	the vows		tree rules
2	make	past · perfect	King		to the Queen	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	defy	past	King not said here	King's counsellors		tree rules
4	find	to-infinitive	King not said here	a Princess	beautiful property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic
5	is	past			than Princess	tree rules
6	think speech: other	gerund	King not said here	this		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme
7	is	to-infinitive			impossible property	tree rules

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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