The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 99
Every one likes a man who deserves to enjoy life and does, in fact, enjoy it.
Who acts: one, man · What happens: like, deserve, enjoy · To what, where: man, life, fact
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 (one, man), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 likes | nsubj |
| 3 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 likes | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 deserves | nsubj |
| 7 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 enjoy | mark |
| 9 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 deserves | xcomp |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enjoy | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 enjoy | cc |
| 12 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 enjoy | aux |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 does | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 fact | case |
| 15 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 enjoy | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fact | punct |
| 17 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 deserves | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 enjoy | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 likes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | every one | a man | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | deserve | present | a man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | enjoy | to-infinitive | a man not said here | life | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | enjoy | present · do-support | a man not said here | life | fact | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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