The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 64

In a matter of the sort Perrault, though a courtier, could be relied on to consider no wishes save those of his future wife and himself.

Who acts: wishes, sort · What happens: rely on, consider, save, matter · To what, where: matter, those

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 (wishes, sort), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 matter	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 matter	det
3	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 relied	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 sort	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sort	det
6	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matter	nmod
7	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sort	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 courtier	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 courtier	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 courtier	det
11	courtier	courtier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matter	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 matter	punct
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 relied	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 relied	aux:pass
15	relied	rely	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	on	on	ADP	_	15 relied	compound:prt
17	to	to	PART	_	18 consider	mark
18	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 relied	advcl
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 wishes	det
20	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 save	nsubj
21	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 consider	ccomp
22	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 save	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 wife	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wife	nmod:poss
25	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wife	amod
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 those	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 himself	cc
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 wife	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 relied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	rely on	could · passive			a matter of the sort and a courtier	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»
2	consider	to-infinitive				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	save	present	no wishes	those		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
4	matter		the sort			nom matter «cognition 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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