The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 59

He evidently took vastly more pride in this dull and now almost forgotten work than in the matchless stories which have made him famous for ever.

Who acts: Parallèle · What happens: take, forget, make · To what, where: more pride, dull work, matchless stories

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 (Parallèle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
2	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	vastly	vastly	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 pride	amod
6	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	14 work	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 work	det
9	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 work	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 forgotten	cc
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 forgotten	advmod
12	almost	almost	ADV	_	13 forgotten	advmod
13	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 dull	conj
14	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
15	than	than	ADP	_	19 stories	case
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 stories	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stories	det
18	matchless	matchless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stories	amod
19	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 work	nmod
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 made	nsubj:pass
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 made	aux
22	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 stories	acl:relcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	obj
24	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 made	xcomp
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 ever	case
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 made	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Parallèle	more pride	this dull work than the matchless stories		evidently, vastly property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pride=Value in work=Location
2	forget	participle	Parallèle not said here			now	almost property	tree rules
3	make	present · perfect · passive		the matchless stories			famous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product for ever=Asset

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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