The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 144
I am sure that they would have given pleasure to Perrault himself.
Who acts: I, proportions · What happens: be, give · To what, where: pleasure, grace
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 (I, proportions), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 given | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 given | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 given | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 given | aux |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 9 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Perrault | case |
| 11 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 given | obl |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 given | iobj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | would · perfect | proportions = proportion | pleasure | grace | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient pleasure=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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