The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 79

The infatuated King could refuse his daughter nothing, and he gave without regret all the diamonds and rubies in his crown to aid this superb work; nothing was to be spared that could make the dress as beautiful as the sun. And, indeed, when the dress appeared, all those who unfolded it were obliged to close their eyes, so much were they dazzled.

Who acts: infatuated King, King, that, dress · What happens: infatuate, refuse, give, aid, spare, make · To what, where: nothing, diamonds, crown, superb work, dress, those

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 (infatuated King, King, that, dress), 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	3 King	det
2	infatuated	infatuate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 King	amod
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 refuse	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 refuse	aux
5	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nothing	nmod:poss
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nothing	compound
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 refuse	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 refuse	conj
13	without	without	ADP	_	14 regret	case
14	regret	regret	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 diamonds	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 diamonds	det
17	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gave	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rubies	cc
19	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 diamonds	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 crown	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 crown	nmod:poss
22	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 aid	mark
24	aid	aid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 gave	advcl
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 work	det
26	superb	superb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 work	amod
27	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 aid	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 spared	punct
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 spared	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 spared	aux:pass
31	to	to	PART	_	33 spared	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 spared	aux:pass
33	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 refuse	conj
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 make	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 make	aux
36	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 spared	parataxis
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 dress	det
38	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 make	obj
39	as	as	ADV	_	40 beautiful	advmod
40	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 dress	amod
41	as	as	ADP	_	43 sun.	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 sun.	det
43	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 beautiful	obl
44	And	and	CCONJ	_	51 appeared	cc
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 And	punct
46	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	51 appeared	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 appeared	punct
48	when	when	SCONJ	_	51 appeared	mark
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 dress	det
50	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 appeared	nsubj
51	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 make	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 those	punct
53	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	54 those	det:predet
54	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	51 appeared	obl
55	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 unfolded	nsubj
56	unfolded	unfold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 those	acl:relcl
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 obliged	nsubj:pass
58	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 obliged	aux:pass
59	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 unfolded	xcomp
60	to	to	PART	_	61 close	mark
61	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 obliged	xcomp
62	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 eyes	nmod:poss
63	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 close	obj
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 dazzled	punct
65	so	so	ADV	_	66 much	advmod
66	much	much	ADV	_	69 dazzled	advmod
67	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	69 dazzled	aux:pass
68	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 dazzled	nsubj
69	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 refuse	conj
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 refuse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	infatuate	participle					tree rules
2	refuse	could	the infatuated King	nothing			vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
3	give	past	King	all diamonds and rubies	King's crown	without regret	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diamond=Theme
4	aid	to-infinitive	King not said here	this superb work			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Beneficiary
5	spare	past · passive		nothing			vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset
6	make	could	that	the dress			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dress=Product
7	appear	past	the dress	those		indeed property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	unfold	past					tree rules
9	oblige	past · passive		dress			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
10	close	to-infinitive		crown's eyes			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
11	dazzle	past · passive		eyes = eye			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
12	crown		King				nom crown «communication transitive»: 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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