The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 67

Tell him that to satisfy a whim you have, he must give you a dress the colour of the weather.

Who acts: you, wish · What happens: tell, satisfy, have, give · To what, where: that, wish, whim, dress, you · 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 (you, wish), 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Tell	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 satisfy	mark
5	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 whim	det
7	whim	whim	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 satisfy	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 whim	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 give	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 give	aux
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 dress	det
16	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 colour	det
18	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 weather	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 weather	det
21	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 colour	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	that	wish	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Topic
2	satisfy	to-infinitive	you not said here	a whim		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus whim=Experiencer
3	have	present	you	a whim not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whim=Patient
4	give	must	wish	a dress	you	tree rules

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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