The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 33
"That is the better to hug thee, my dear."
Who acts: That · What happens: be, hug · To what, where: thee · 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 (That), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 better | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 better | det |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hug | mark |
| 7 | hug | hug | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 better | csubj |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 hug | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dear | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dear | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hug | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hug in a quote | to-infinitive | thee | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Co-Agent |
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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