The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 137

_It is, perhaps, unnecessary for me to add anything about Mr Clarke's illustrations.

Who acts: credit, me, Mr Clarke · What happens: be, add, illustrate · To what, where: anything

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 (credit, me, Mr Clarke), 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	_	7 unnecessary	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 unnecessary	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 unnecessary	cop
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
5	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	7 unnecessary	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 perhaps	punct
7	unnecessary	unnecessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 add	mark
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 add	nsubj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 add	mark
11	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 unnecessary	advcl
12	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 add	obj
13	about	about	ADP	_	17 illustrations	case
14	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Clarke	compound
15	Clarke	Clarke	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 illustrations	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Clarke	case
17	illustrations	illustration	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 anything	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 unnecessary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	credit		perhaps, unnecessary property	tree rules
2	add speech: assert	to-infinitive	me	anything	about Mr Clarke's illustrations	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
3	illustrate		Mr Clarke			nom illustration «communication 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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