The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 8
We should, I think, be more fortunate still if the memoirs had not ceased in mid-career, or if their author had permitted himself to write of his family affairs without reserve or restraint, in the approved manner of modern autobiography.
Who acts: We, author · What happens: think, be, not cease, permit, write, approve · To what, where: memoirs, mid-career, author, approved manner · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, author), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fortunate | punct |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fortunate | cop |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 fortunate | advmod |
| 9 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 think | ccomp |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 fortunate | advmod |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 ceased | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 memoirs | det |
| 13 | memoirs | memoir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ceased | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ceased | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 ceased | advmod |
| 16 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 fortunate | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 mid-career | case |
| 18 | mid-career | mid-career | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ceased | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 permitted | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 permitted | cc |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 permitted | mark |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 author | nmod:poss |
| 23 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 permitted | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 permitted | aux |
| 25 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 think | conj |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 permitted | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 write | mark |
| 28 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 permitted | advcl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 affairs | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 affairs | nmod:poss |
| 31 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 affairs | compound |
| 32 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 write | obl |
| 33 | without | without | ADP | _ | 34 reserve | case |
| 34 | reserve | reserve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 write | obl |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 restraint | cc |
| 36 | restraint | restraint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 reserve | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 manner | punct |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 manner | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 manner | det |
| 40 | approved | approve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 manner | amod |
| 41 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 write | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 autobiography | case |
| 43 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 autobiography | amod |
| 44 | autobiography | autobiography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 manner | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | should | We | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | still | fortunate property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not cease a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | the memoirs | mid-career | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | permit a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | memoirs's author | author | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 5 | write | to-infinitive | memoirs's author not said here | the approved manner of modern autobiography | of author's family affairs; without reserve or restraint | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in manner=Destination | |||
| 6 | approve | participle | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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