The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 112
They would neither of them have him, and each made the other welcome of him, being not able to bear the thought of marrying a man who had a blue beard.
Who acts: beauties, each, thought, man · What happens: have, make, not be, bear, marry, welcome · To what, where: One, other welcome, thought, man, blue beard
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beauties, each, thought, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 3 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 6 have | advmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 neither | obl |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 welcome | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 welcome | amod |
| 14 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 welcome | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 able | punct |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 able | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 able | advmod |
| 20 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 made | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 bear | mark |
| 22 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 thought | det |
| 24 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bear | obj |
| 25 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 marrying | mark |
| 26 | marrying | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 thought | acl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 man | det |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 marrying | obj |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 man | acl:relcl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 beard | det |
| 32 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 beard | amod |
| 33 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | beauties = beauty | One | neither property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | past | each | the other welcome of One | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset welcome=Product | ||||
| 3 | not is | gerund | each not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bear | to-infinitive | each not said here | the thought | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | ||||
| 5 | marry | gerund | the thought not said here | a man | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 6 | have | past | a man | a blue beard | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient | ||||
| 7 | welcome | One | nom welcome «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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