The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 59
Every day charming portraits were brought him, but none gave promise of the beauty of his late Queen; instead of coming to a decision he brooded over his sorrow until in the end his reason left him.
Who acts: none, King, reason · What happens: charm, bring, give, come, brood, leave · To what, where: charming portraits, promise, decision, sorrow, King, end
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 (none, King, reason), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | charming | charm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 portraits | amod |
| 4 | portraits | portrait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | aux:pass |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 10 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | conj |
| 12 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 beauty | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beauty | det |
| 15 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 promise | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Queen | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 Queen | nmod:poss |
| 18 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Queen | amod |
| 19 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 beauty | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 coming | punct |
| 21 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 coming | mark |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 instead | fixed |
| 23 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 brought | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 decision | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 decision | det |
| 26 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 coming | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 brooded | nsubj |
| 28 | brooded | brood | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 decision | acl:relcl |
| 29 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 sorrow | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 31 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 brooded | obl |
| 32 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 38 left | mark |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 end | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 end | det |
| 35 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 left | obl |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 reason | nmod:poss |
| 37 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 left | nsubj |
| 38 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 brooded | advcl |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 left | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charm | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | charming portraits | day | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | give | past | none | promise of the beauty of King's late Queen | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | a decision | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to decision=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | brood | past | King | a decision not said here | King's sorrow | tree rules | |||
| 6 | leave | past | King's reason | King | in the end | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in end=Location | |||
| 7 | promise | the beauty of King's late Queen | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | sorrow | King | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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