The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 66

For, my dear child," she said to her, "it would be a great sin to submit to your father's wishes, but you can avoid the necessity without displeasing him.

Who acts: Princess, fear, you, father · What happens: say, be, submit, avoid, displease, wish · To what, where: reason, great sin, necessity, wish · 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 (Princess, fear, you, father), 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	For	for	ADP	_	5 child	case
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 child	punct
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 child	nmod:poss
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 child	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 child	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sin	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 sin	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sin	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 sin	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 sin	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sin	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sin	amod
19	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 submit	mark
21	submit	submit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sin	acl
22	to	to	ADP	_	26 wishes	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wishes	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 father	case
26	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 submit	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 avoid	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 avoid	cc
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 avoid	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 avoid	aux
31	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 necessity	det
33	necessity	necessity	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 avoid	obj
34	without	without	SCONJ	_	35 displeasing	mark
35	displeasing	displease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 avoid	advcl
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 displeasing	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Princess		reason	for my dear child	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
2	is a	would	fear	a great sin			tree rules
3	submit	to-infinitive	Princess not said here			to your father's wishes	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wish=Theme
4	avoid	can	you	the necessity			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent necessity=Location
5	displease	gerund	you not said here	wish			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
6	wish		your father				nom wish «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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