The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 44
_From this short story easy we discern What conduct all young people ought to learn.
Who acts: we, young people · What happens: discern, conduct, learn
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 (we, young people), 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 | _ | 6 easy | punct |
| 2 | From | from | ADP | _ | 5 story | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 story | det |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 easy | obl |
| 6 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 discern | nsubj |
| 8 | discern | discern | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 easy | acl:relcl |
| 9 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 conduct | nsubj |
| 10 | conduct | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 discern | ccomp |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 young | advmod |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 learn | nsubj |
| 14 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 learn | aux |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 learn | mark |
| 16 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 conduct | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discern | present | we | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | conduct | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | learn | ought | young people | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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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