The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 95
The Princess embraced her godmother many times, and begged her not to forsake her.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: embrace, beg, not forsake · To what, where: godmother
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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 embraced | nsubj |
| 3 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 godmother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 embraced | obj |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 times | amod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 embraced | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 begged | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 begged | cc |
| 10 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 embraced | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 begged | obj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 forsake | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 forsake | mark |
| 14 | forsake | forsake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 begged | xcomp |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 forsake | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past | the Princess | Princess's godmother | time | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent godmother=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the Princess not said here | godmother | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not forsake not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | godmother | 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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