The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 117

In short, every thing succeeded so well, that the youngest daughter began to think the master of the house not to have a beard so very blue, and that he was a mighty civil gentleman.

Who acts: thing, youngest daughter, master · What happens: succeed, begin, think, not have, be · To what, where: short, beard, mighty civil gentleman · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (thing, youngest daughter, master), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 short	case
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 succeeded	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 succeeded	punct
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 thing	det
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 succeeded	nsubj
6	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 well	advmod
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 succeeded	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 began	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 daughter	det
12	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 daughter	amod
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 succeeded	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 think	mark
16	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 master	det
18	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 house	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 house	det
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 master	nmod
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 have	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 have	mark
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 think	ccomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 beard	det
26	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obj
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 blue	advmod
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 blue	advmod
29	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 have	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 gentleman	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 gentleman	cc
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 gentleman	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 gentleman	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 gentleman	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 gentleman	det
36	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 gentleman	amod
37	civil	civil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 gentleman	amod
38	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 succeeded	parataxis
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 succeeded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	succeed	past	every thing		short	well property	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in short=Eventuality
2	begin	past	the youngest daughter				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the youngest daughter not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not have	to-infinitive	the master of the house	a beard			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient
5	is a	past	master	a mighty civil gentleman			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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