The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 59
As people naturally love their own likeness, this mother even doated on her eldest daughter, and at the same time had a horrible aversion for the youngest.
Who acts: people · What happens: love, doat, have · To what, where: own likeness, mother, horrible aversion
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 (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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 love | mark |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 love | nsubj |
| 3 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 4 love | advmod |
| 4 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 doated | advcl |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 likeness | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 likeness | amod |
| 7 | likeness | likeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 love | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 love | punct |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 mother | det |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 doated | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 doated | advmod |
| 12 | doated | doat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 daughter | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 daughter | amod |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 doated | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obl |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 doated | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 aversion | det |
| 25 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 aversion | amod |
| 26 | aversion | aversion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 youngest | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 youngest | det |
| 29 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 had | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 doated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | people | people's own likeness | naturally property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer likeness=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | doat | participle · passive | this mother | on mother's eldest daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | a horrible aversion | time | for the youngest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aversion=Patient |
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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