The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 61
The young Princess, who was virtuous and chaste, threw herself at the feet of the King her father and conjured him, with all the eloquence she could command, not to constrain her to consent to his unnatural desire.
Who acts: young Princess, Princess, King · What happens: be, throw, conjure, command, not constrain, consent · To what, where: Princess, feet, King · 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 (young Princess, Princess, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Princess | amod |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 virtuous | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 virtuous | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 virtuous | cop |
| 7 | virtuous | virtuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Princess | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 chaste | cc |
| 9 | chaste | chaste | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 virtuous | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Princess | punct |
| 11 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 threw | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 feet | det |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 threw | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 King | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 feet | nmod |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 threw | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 conjured | cc |
| 22 | conjured | conjure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 threw | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 conjured | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 command | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 eloquence | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 eloquence | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 eloquence | det |
| 28 | eloquence | eloquence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 command | obl |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 command | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 command | aux |
| 31 | command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 conjured | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 constrain | punct |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 constrain | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 constrain | mark |
| 35 | constrain | constrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 command | conj |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 constrain | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 consent | mark |
| 38 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 constrain | xcomp |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 desire | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 desire | nmod:poss |
| 41 | unnatural | unnatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 desire | amod |
| 42 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 consent | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the young Princess | virtuous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the young Princess not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | throw | past | the young Princess | Princess | the feet of the King | tree rules | |||
| 4 | conjure | past | the young Princess not said here | King | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result | ||||
| 5 | command | could | Princess | with all eloquence | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | not constrain | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | Princess | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Causer she=Patient clause=Goal | ||||
| 7 | consent | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | to King's unnatural desire | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to desire=Theme | ||||
| 8 | desire | King | nom desire «feeling transitive»: 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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