The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "away She Drove, Scarce Able to Contain Herself For Joy" 78, sentence 3
"THE PRINCE BELIEVED HE HAD GIVEN HER MORE WITH THAN HE HAD RESERVED FOR HIMSELF" 99
Who acts: PRINCE · What happens: believe, give, reserve · To what, where: PRINCE, 99 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "away She Drove, Scarce Able to Contain Herself For Joy" 78. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (PRINCE), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 BELIEVED | punct |
| 2 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 PRINCE | det |
| 3 | PRINCE | PRINCE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 BELIEVED | nsubj |
| 4 | BELIEVED | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | HE | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 GIVEN | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | HAD | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 GIVEN | aux |
| 7 | GIVEN | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 BELIEVED | ccomp |
| 8 | HER | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 GIVEN | obj |
| 9 | MORE | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 GIVEN | advmod |
| 10 | WITH | with | SCONJ | _ | 14 RESERVED | mark |
| 11 | THAN | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 RESERVED | mark |
| 12 | HE | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 RESERVED | nsubj |
| 13 | HAD | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 RESERVED | aux |
| 14 | RESERVED | reserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 GIVEN | advcl |
| 15 | FOR | for | ADP | _ | 16 HIMSELF | case |
| 16 | HIMSELF | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 RESERVED | obl |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 99 | punct |
| 18 | 99 | 99 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 RESERVED | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe in a quote | past | the PRINCE | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | past · perfect · passive | PRINCE | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reserve in a quote | past · perfect | PRINCE | 99 | for PRINCE | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for himself=Beneficiary |
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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