The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 60
_O curiosity, thou mortal bane!
Who acts: thou · What happens: bane
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 (thou), 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 | _ | 3 curiosity | punct |
| 2 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 3 curiosity | case |
| 3 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bane | punct |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 bane | nsubj |
| 6 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bane | amod |
| 7 | bane | bane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 curiosity | conj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 curiosity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bane | thou | tree rules |
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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