The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 69
The Princess thanked her godmother from her heart, and the next morning spoke to the King as the Fairy had counselled her, and protested that no one would win her hand unless he gave her a dress the colour of the weather.
Who acts: Princess, next morning, Fairy, one, wish · What happens: thank, speak, counsell, protest, win, give · To what, where: godmother, heart, Princess, hand, dress · 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, next morning, Fairy, one), 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 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 godmother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spoke | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spoke | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 morning | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 morning | amod |
| 13 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spoke | nsubj |
| 14 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 King | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 spoke | obl |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 counselled | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Fairy | det |
| 20 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 counselled | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 counselled | aux |
| 22 | counselled | counsell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 spoke | advcl |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 counselled | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 protested | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 protested | cc |
| 26 | protested | protest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | parataxis |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 win | mark |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 one | det |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 win | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 win | aux |
| 31 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 protested | ccomp |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 hand | nmod:poss |
| 33 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 win | obj |
| 34 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 36 gave | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 gave | nsubj |
| 36 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 win | advcl |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 gave | iobj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 dress | det |
| 39 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gave | obj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 colour | det |
| 41 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gave | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 weather | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 weather | det |
| 44 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 colour | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the Princess | Princess's godmother | Princess's heart | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent godmother=Theme | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the next morning | to the King | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to king=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | counsell | past · perfect | the Fairy | Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | protest speech: disagree | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | win | would | no one | Princess's hand | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | give a condition, not said to happen | past | wish | a dress | Princess | 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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