The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 54
But the Council treated the promise as a trifle, and said that it mattered little about beauty if the Queen were but virtuous and fruitful.
Who acts: Council, it · What happens: treat, say, matter, be · To what, where: promise, little · 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 (Council, it), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 treated | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Council | det |
| 3 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 treated | nsubj |
| 4 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 promise | det |
| 6 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 treated | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 trifle | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 trifle | det |
| 9 | trifle | trifle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 treated | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 treated | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 mattered | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 mattered | nsubj |
| 15 | mattered | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mattered | obj |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 beauty | case |
| 18 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mattered | obl |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 Queen | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Queen | det |
| 21 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 mattered | obl |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 virtuous | cop |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 virtuous | cc |
| 24 | virtuous | virtuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fruitful | cc |
| 26 | fruitful | fruitful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 virtuous | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 treated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | past | the Council | the promise | as a trifle | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent promise=Theme as trifle=Attribute | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Council not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | matter | past | it | little | about beauty; the Queen obl | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past | virtuous property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be | 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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