The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 21

She would have melted a rock, so beautiful and sorrowful was she; but Blue Beard had a heart harder than any rock.

Who acts: Madam, Blue Beard · What happens: melt, be, have · To what, where: rock, affair, heart

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madam, Blue Beard), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 melted	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 melted	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 melted	aux
4	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rock	det
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melted	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 beautiful	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 beautiful	advmod
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rock	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sorrowful	cc
11	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beautiful	conj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 she	cop
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rock	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
16	Blue	Blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Beard	amod
17	Beard	Beard	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 melted	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 heart	det
20	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
21	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 had	xcomp
22	than	than	ADP	_	24 rock	case
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 rock	det
24	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 harder	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 melted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	melt	would · perfect	Madam	a rock		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient rock=Result
2	is a	past	Madam not said here	affair		tree rules
3	have	past	Blue Beard	a heart	hard property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=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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