The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 102

He was the cause of enjoyment to countless of his fellows, and his stories still promise enjoyment to countless others to come.

Who acts: man, stories · What happens: be, promise, come · To what, where: cause, enjoyment, countless others

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, stories), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cause	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cause	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cause	det
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 enjoyment	case
6	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 countless	case
8	countless	countless	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enjoyment	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 fellows	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fellows	nmod:poss
11	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 countless	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 promise	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 promise	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 stories	nmod:poss
15	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 promise	nsubj
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 promise	advmod
17	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cause	parataxis
18	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 promise	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 others	case
20	countless	countless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 others	amod
21	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 promise	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 come	mark
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 promise	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cause	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	man	the cause		of enjoyment to countless of man's fellows	tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	present	man's stories	enjoyment	still	to countless others goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent enjoyment=Theme to other=Goal
3	come	to-infinitive	man's stories not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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