The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 71
But he was saved from resorting to this extreme measure, since, on the second day, they brought the much desired robe.
Who acts: Fairies · What happens: save, resort, bring, desire · To what, where: King, much desired robe
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 (Fairies), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 saved | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saved | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saved | aux:pass |
| 4 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 6 resorting | mark |
| 6 | resorting | resort | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 saved | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 measure | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 measure | det |
| 9 | extreme | extreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 measure | amod |
| 10 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 resorting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brought | punct |
| 12 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 20 brought | mark |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 since | punct |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 16 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 day | amod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 day | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 brought | nsubj |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saved | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 robe | det |
| 22 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 robe | amod |
| 23 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 robe | amod |
| 24 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past · passive | King | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | resort | gerund | to this extreme measure result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to measure=Result | |||||
| 3 | bring | past | Fairies = fairy | the much desired robe | day | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent robe=Theme | |||
| 4 | desire | participle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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