The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 56

The eldest was so much like her in the face and humour, that whoever looked upon the daughter saw the mother.

Who acts: eldest, that, daughter · What happens: be, look, see · To what, where: face, mother

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 (eldest, that, daughter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eldest	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 face	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 face	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	10 face	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 much	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 face	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 face	det
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 humour	cc
12	humour	humour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 face	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looked	punct
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 looked	nsubj
15	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 face	parataxis
17	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	20 saw	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 daughter	det
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 looked	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mother	det
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 face	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is	past	the eldest		the face and humour	tree rules
2	look	past	that			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	past	the daughter	the mother		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus

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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