The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 86

In spite of his madness I think he will be a little astonished by the request that I counsel you to make of him; it is that he should give you the skin of that ass he loves so dearly, and which supplies him so profusely with the means of paying all his expenses.

Who acts: I, King, request, the · What happens: think, astonish, be, counsel, make, love · To what, where: spite, little astonished request, you, ass, King, expenses · 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 (I, King, request, the), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 spite	case
2	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 think	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 madness	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 madness	nmod:poss
5	madness	madness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spite	nmod
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 think	nsubj
7	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 request	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 request	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 request	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 request	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 request	amod
13	astonished	astonish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 request	amod
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 request	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 request	det
16	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 think	ccomp
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 counsel	obj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 counsel	nsubj
19	counsel	counsel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 request	acl:relcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 counsel	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 make	mark
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 counsel	advcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 make	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 give	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 give	cop
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 give	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 give	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 give	aux
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 think	conj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 give	iobj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 skin	det
34	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 give	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 ass	case
36	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 ass	det
37	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 skin	nmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 loves	nsubj
39	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 ass	acl:relcl
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 dearly	advmod
41	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	39 loves	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 supplies	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 supplies	cc
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 supplies	nsubj
45	supplies	supply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 think	conj
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 supplies	obj
47	so	so	ADV	_	48 profusely	advmod
48	profusely	profusely	ADV	_	45 supplies	advmod
49	with	with	SCONJ	_	51 means	mark
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 means	nsubj
51	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 supplies	advcl
52	of	of	SCONJ	_	53 paying	mark
53	paying	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 means	ccomp
54	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	56 expenses	det:predet
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 expenses	nmod:poss
56	expenses	expense	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 paying	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I			spite of King's madness		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	astonish	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	future	King				by a little astonished request	tree rules
4	counsel speech: other	present	I	a little astonished request				tree rules
5	make	to-infinitive	I not said here				of King	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	is	should · present	request		you		give property	tree rules
7	love	present	King	that ass not said here			dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ass=Stimulus
8	supply	present			King		profusely property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
9	mean	present	the					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	pay	gerund		King's expenses				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expense=Asset
11	spite			King's madness				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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