The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 27

Here Perrault had little to do save to read at large in the excellent library which his brother had formed.

Who acts: Perrault, brother · What happens: have, save, read, form · To what, where: little, excellent library

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 (Perrault, brother), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 had	advmod
2	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 save	mark
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 save	aux
7	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 little	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 read	mark
9	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 save	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 large	case
11	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 read	ccomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 library	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 library	det
14	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 library	amod
15	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 large	obl
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 formed	obj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 brother	nmod:poss
18	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 formed	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 formed	aux
20	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 library	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	Perrault	little	here	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient
2	save	to-infinitive · do-support	Perrault not said here			tree rules
3	read	to-infinitive	Perrault not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	form	past · perfect	Bar's brother	the excellent library		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=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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