The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 62

The King, in his madness, could not understand the reason of her desperate reluctance, and asked an old Druid-priest to set the conscience of the Princess at rest.

Who acts: King · What happens: not understand, ask, set · To what, where: reason, old Druid priest, conscience, rest

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 understand	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 madness	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 madness	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 madness	nmod:poss
6	madness	madness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 King	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 King	punct
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 understand	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 understand	advmod
10	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 reason	det
12	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 understand	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 reluctance	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 reluctance	nmod:poss
15	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 reluctance	amod
16	reluctance	reluctance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reason	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 asked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 asked	cc
19	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 understand	conj
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 priest	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 priest	amod
22	Druid	druid	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 priest	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 Druid	punct
24	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 asked	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 set	mark
26	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 priest	acl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 conscience	det
28	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 set	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 Princess	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Princess	det
31	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 conscience	nmod
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 rest	case
33	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 set	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not understand	could	the King	the reason of reason's desperate reluctance		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus
2	ask speech: ask	past	the King not said here	a old Druid priest		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent priest=Recipient
3	set	to-infinitive	the King not said here	the conscience of the Princess	rest	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent conscience=Theme at rest=Destination

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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