The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 45

But above all, young, growing misses fair, Whose orient rosy blooms begin t'appear: Who, beauties in the fragrant spring of age, With pretty airs young hearts are apt t'engage.

Who acts: Whose orient rosy blooms, apt t'engage, beauties · What happens: grow, miss, begin, beauty, be · To what, where: all, t'appear, apt t'engage

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 (Whose orient rosy blooms, apt t'engage, beauties), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 misses	cc
2	above	above	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 misses	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 all	punct
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 all	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 all	punct
7	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 all	nmod
8	misses	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 misses	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 begin	punct
11	Whose	whose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 blooms	amod
12	orient	orient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 blooms	amod
13	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 blooms	amod
14	blooms	bloom	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 begin	nsubj
15	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fair	parataxis
16	t'appear	t'appear	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 begin	obj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 beauties	punct
18	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 beauties	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 beauties	punct
20	beauties	beauty	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 t'engage	nsubj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 spring	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 spring	det
23	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 spring	amod
24	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 beauties	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 age	case
26	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spring	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 airs	punct
28	With	with	ADP	_	30 airs	case
29	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 airs	amod
30	airs	air	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 beauties	conj
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hearts	amod
32	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 airs	conj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 t'engage	cop
34	apt	apt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 t'engage	amod
35	t'engage	t'engage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 t'appear	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 misses	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	gerund						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	miss	present			all		fair property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	begin	present	Whose orient rosy blooms	t'appear				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent t'appear=Eventuality
4	beauty		apt t'engage			spring		tree rules
5	is a	present	beauties and pretty airs and young hearts	apt t'engage				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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