The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 88
The Princess, overjoyed at finding yet another avenue of escape; for she thought that her father could never bring himself to sacrifice the ass, went to find him, and unfolded to him her latest desire.
Who acts: Princess, father · What happens: overjoy, think, not bring, sacrifice, go, find · To what, where: avenue, finding, father, ass, latest desire · 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, father), 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 | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 overjoyed | punct |
| 4 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Princess | acl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 finding | case |
| 6 | finding | finding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overjoyed | obl |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 overjoyed | advmod |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 avenue | det |
| 9 | avenue | avenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overjoyed | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 escape | case |
| 11 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 avenue | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 thought | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 bring | mark |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bring | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 bring | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 bring | advmod |
| 21 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 bring | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 sacrifice | mark |
| 24 | sacrifice | sacrifice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 bring | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ass | det |
| 26 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sacrifice | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thought | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 find | mark |
| 30 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 went | xcomp |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 find | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 unfolded | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 unfolded | cc |
| 34 | unfolded | unfold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 thought | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 unfolded | obl |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 desire | nmod:poss |
| 38 | latest | late | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 desire | amod |
| 39 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 unfolded | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | participle | the Princess not said here | another avenue of escape | finding | yet | tree rules | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the Princess | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not bring | could | Princess's father | father | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sacrifice | to-infinitive | Princess's father not said here | the ass | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent ass=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past | the Princess not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | find | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | father | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 7 | unfold | participle | the Princess not said here | Princess's latest desire | father | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent desire=Patient to he=Result | |||
| 8 | desire | Princess | nom desire «feeling 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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