The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 63
Now this Druid, less religious than ambitious, sacrificed the cause of innocence and virtue to the favour of so great a monarch, and instead of trying to restore the King to his right mind, he encouraged him in his delusion.
Who acts: Druid, King · What happens: sacrifice, try, restore, encourage, cause, favour · To what, where: cause, favour, King, right mind, Druid, delusion
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 (Druid, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 Druid | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Druid | det |
| 3 | Druid | druid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sacrificed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 religious | punct |
| 5 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 religious | amod |
| 6 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Druid | amod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 ambitious | case |
| 8 | ambitious | ambitious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 religious | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Druid | punct |
| 10 | sacrificed | sacrifice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cause | det |
| 12 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sacrificed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 innocence | case |
| 14 | innocence | innocence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cause | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 virtue | cc |
| 16 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 innocence | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 favour | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 favour | det |
| 19 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sacrificed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 monarch | case |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 great | advmod |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 monarch | amod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 monarch | det |
| 24 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 favour | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 trying | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 trying | cc |
| 27 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 29 trying | mark |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 instead | fixed |
| 29 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 sacrificed | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 restore | mark |
| 31 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 trying | xcomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 King | det |
| 33 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 restore | obj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 mind | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 mind | nmod:poss |
| 36 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 mind | amod |
| 37 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 restore | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 encouraged | punct |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 encouraged | nsubj |
| 40 | encouraged | encourage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sacrificed | conj |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 encouraged | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 delusion | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 delusion | nmod:poss |
| 44 | delusion | delusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 encouraged | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sacrificed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sacrifice | past | this Druid | the cause of innocence and virtue | the favour of a great monarch | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cause=Theme to favour=Recipient | |||
| 2 | try | gerund | this Druid not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | restore not said to happen | to-infinitive | this Druid not said here | the King | King's right mind | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Theme to mind=Recipient | |||
| 4 | encourage | past | King | Druid | King's delusion | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | cause | innocence and virtue | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | favour | a great monarch | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | mind | King | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | delude | King | nom delusion «state 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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