The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 92

For he was clever, honest, courteous, and witty.

Who acts: first · What happens: be

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 (first), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 clever	case
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clever	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clever	cop
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 honest	punct
6	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clever	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 courteous	punct
8	courteous	courteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clever	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 witty	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 witty	cc
11	witty	witty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clever	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 clever	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	first	clever property	tree rules
2	be		first not said here		tree rules
3	be		first not said here		tree rules
4	be		first not said here		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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