The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 21

It certainly prevented Perrault from being a thorough scholar, though it made him a man of taste, a sincere independent, and an undaunted amateur.

Who acts: plan · What happens: prevent, be, make · To what, where: Perrault, thorough scholar, man, cause

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 (plan), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 prevented	nsubj
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	3 prevented	advmod
3	prevented	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 prevented	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 scholar	case
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 scholar	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 scholar	det
8	thorough	thorough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 scholar	amod
9	scholar	scholar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prevented	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 made	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 prevented	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 taste	case
18	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 man	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 independent	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 independent	det
21	sincere	sincere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 independent	amod
22	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 made	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 amateur	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 amateur	cc
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 amateur	det
26	undaunted	undaunted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 amateur	amod
27	amateur	amateur	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 independent	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 prevented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	prevent	past	plan	Perrault			certainly property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer perrault=Theme
2	is	gerund				a thorough scholar		tree rules
3	make	past	plan	a man of taste	cause			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary man=Product

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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