The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 65
"You are so very pretty, my dear, so good and so mannerly, that I cannot help giving you a gift" (for this was a Fairy, who had taken the form of a poor country-woman, to see how far the civility and good manners of this pretty girl would go). "
Who acts: You, good woman, this, Fairy, I, civility · What happens: be, not help, give, take, see, go · To what, where: gift, you, form, poor country woman · 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 (You, good woman, this, Fairy), 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 | _ | 9 dear | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 dear | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dear | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 pretty | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 pretty | advmod |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 9 dear | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dear | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dear | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 good | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 good | advmod |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dear | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 mannerly | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 mannerly | advmod |
| 15 | mannerly | mannerly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dear | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 help | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 help | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 help | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 help | advmod |
| 21 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dear | parataxis |
| 22 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 help | xcomp |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 giving | iobj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 gift | det |
| 25 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 giving | obj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 Fairy | punct |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 Fairy | case |
| 29 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 Fairy | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 Fairy | cop |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 Fairy | det |
| 32 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 help | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 taken | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 taken | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 taken | aux |
| 36 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 Fairy | acl:relcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 form | det |
| 38 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 taken | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 woman | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 woman | det |
| 41 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 woman | amod |
| 42 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 woman | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 country | punct |
| 44 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 form | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 see | punct |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 see | mark |
| 47 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 help | conj |
| 48 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 49 far | advmod |
| 49 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 60 go | advmod |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 civility | det |
| 51 | civility | civility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 go | nsubj |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 manners | cc |
| 53 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 manners | amod |
| 54 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 51 civility | conj |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 58 girl | case |
| 56 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 58 girl | det |
| 57 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 girl | amod |
| 58 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 manners | nmod |
| 59 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 60 go | aux |
| 60 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 see | ccomp |
| 61 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 60 go | punct |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dear | punct |
| 63 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 dear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | dear, pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | You not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be in a quote | You not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not help in a quote | can | the good woman = woman | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | give not said to happen, in a quote | gerund | the good woman = woman not said here | a gift | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient gift=Theme | |||
| 6 | is | past | this | for a Fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | take | past · perfect | a Fairy | the form of a poor country woman | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | ||||
| 8 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | go | would | the civility and good manners of this pretty girl | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 10 | form | a poor country woman | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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