The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 76
The Princess, though pleased with the dress when it was delivered, gave way to distress when she was with her women and her nurse.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: deliver, give, distress, be · To what, where: dress, way
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), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
| 4 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 pleased | mark |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Princess | amod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 dress | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dress | det |
| 8 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 delivered | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 delivered | aux:pass |
| 12 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 pleased | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Princess | punct |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 distress | mark |
| 17 | distress | distress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 gave | advcl |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 women | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 women | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 women | cop |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 women | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 women | nmod:poss |
| 23 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 distress | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 nurse | cc |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 26 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 women | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | past · passive | dress | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | give | past | the Princess | way | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | distress | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Princess | with Princess's women and Princess's nurse | 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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