The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "away She Drove, Scarce Able to Contain Herself For Joy" 78, sentence 9
"TRUTH TO TELL, THIS NEW ORNAMENT DID NOT SET OFF HER BEAUTY" 133
Who acts: NEW ORNAMENT · What happens: tell, not set off · To what, where: BEAUTY · 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 (NEW ORNAMENT), 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 | _ | 2 TRUTH | punct |
| 2 | TRUTH | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 SET | parataxis |
| 3 | TO | to | PART | _ | 4 TELL | mark |
| 4 | TELL | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 TRUTH | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 TRUTH | punct |
| 6 | THIS | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 ORNAMENT | det |
| 7 | NEW | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ORNAMENT | amod |
| 8 | ORNAMENT | ornament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 SET | nsubj |
| 9 | DID | did | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 SET | aux |
| 10 | NOT | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 SET | advmod |
| 11 | SET | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | OFF | off | ADP | _ | 11 SET | compound:prt |
| 13 | HER | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 BEAUTY | nmod:poss |
| 14 | BEAUTY | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 SET | obj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 SET | punct |
| 16 | 133 | 133 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 SET | obj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | this NEW ORNAMENT not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not set off in a quote | this NEW ORNAMENT | ORNAMENT's BEAUTY | 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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