The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 99
But sweet discourse more potent riches yields; Of higher value is the pow'r it wields.
Who acts: pow'r · What happens: be, wield · To what, where: pow'r
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 (pow'r), 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 | _ | 7 yields | cc |
| 2 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 discourse | amod |
| 3 | discourse | discourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 more | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 potent | advmod |
| 5 | potent | potent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 riches | amod |
| 6 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 yields | compound |
| 7 | yields | yield | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 pow'r | punct |
| 9 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 11 value | case |
| 10 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 value | amod |
| 11 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pow'r | obl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 pow'r | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pow'r | det |
| 14 | pow'r | pow'r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yields | nmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wields | nsubj |
| 16 | wields | wield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 pow'r | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 yields | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the pow'r | of higher value | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wield | present | pow'r | the pow'r not said here | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pow'r=Theme |
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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