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

The grace, delicacy, urbanity, tenderness, and humour which went to the making of Perrault's stories must, it seems, have also gone in somewhat similar proportions to the making of these delightful drawings.

Who acts: humour, grace, stories, delightful drawings · What happens: go, seem, make · To what, where: making, similar proportions

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 (humour, grace, stories, delightful drawings), 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 grace	det
2	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seems	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 delicacy	punct
4	delicacy	delicacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grace	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 urbanity	punct
6	urbanity	urbanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grace	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tenderness	punct
8	tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 urbanity	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 humour	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 humour	cc
11	humour	humour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grace	conj
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 humour	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 making	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 making	det
16	making	making	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 stories	case
18	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 stories	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Perrault	case
20	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 making	nmod
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 seems	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 must	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seems	nsubj
24	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gone	punct
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 gone	aux
27	also	also	ADV	_	28 gone	advmod
28	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 seems	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 proportions	case
30	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	31 similar	advmod
31	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 proportions	amod
32	proportions	proportion	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 gone	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 making	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 making	det
35	making	making	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gone	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 drawings	case
37	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	39 drawings	det
38	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 drawings	amod
39	drawings	drawing	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 making	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	humour	the making of Perrault's stories		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to making=Initial_Location
2	seem	present	the grace and delicacy and urbanity and tenderness and humour			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	go	present · perfect	the grace and delicacy and urbanity and tenderness and humour not said here	similar proportions	to the making of this delightful drawings	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to making=Initial_Location
4	make		Perrault's stories			nom making «act intransitive»: of=agent
5	make		this delightful drawings			nom making «act intransitive»: of=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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