The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 9

We should like, for example, to know much more than we do about the wife and the two sons to whom he was so devoted.

Who acts: We, author · What happens: like, know, do, be · To what, where: more

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	3 like	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 like	aux
3	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 example	punct
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 example	case
6	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 like	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 know	mark
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 like	conj
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 know	obj
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	14 do	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 do	nsubj
14	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 more	advcl
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 wife	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wife	det
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 do	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sons	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sons	det
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 sons	nummod
21	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wife	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 whom	case
23	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 sons	nmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 devoted	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 devoted	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 devoted	advmod
27	devoted	devoted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 whom	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	should	We		for example	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for example=Attribute
2	know	to-infinitive	We not said here	more		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
3	do	present	we		about the wife and the two sons to the wife and the two sons to the wife	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	author		devoted property	tree rules

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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