The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 62
And always proves, alas! too dear the prize, Which, in the moment of possession, dies.
Who acts: dear prize · What happens: prove, die
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 (dear prize), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 proves | cc |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 proves | advmod |
| 3 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 alas | punct |
| 5 | alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 3 proves | discourse |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 alas | punct |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 dear | advmod |
| 8 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 prize | amod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prize | det |
| 10 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proves | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dies | punct |
| 12 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 dies | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Which | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 moment | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moment | det |
| 16 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dies | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 possession | case |
| 18 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 moment | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 moment | punct |
| 20 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 prize | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 proves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | present | always property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | die | present | the dear prize | moment | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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