The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 65

_A very little share of common sense, And knowledge of the world, will soon evince That this a story is of time long pass'd; No husbands now such panic terrors cast; Nor weakly, with a vain despotic hand, Imperious, what's impossible, command: And be they discontented, or the fire Of wicked jealousy their hearts inspire, They softly sing; and of whatever hue Their beards may chance to be, or black, or blue, Grizeld, or russet, it is hard to say Which of the two, the man or wife, bears sway.

Who acts: little share, story, husbands, vain despotic hand, share, hearts · What happens: evince, be, cast, inspire, sing, chance · To what, where: That, wicked jealousy, common sense · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (little share, story, husbands, vain despotic hand), 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	_	5 share	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 share	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 little	advmod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 share	amod
5	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 evince	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sense	case
7	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sense	amod
8	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 share	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knowledge	punct
10	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 knowledge	cc
11	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 share	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knowledge	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 share	punct
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 evince	aux
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 evince	advmod
18	evince	evince	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 evince	obj
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 That	obj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 story	det
22	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 'd	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 'd	cop
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 'd	case
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 'd	nsubj
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 'd	amod
27	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 'd	compound
28	'd	'd	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 evince	ccomp
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 cast	punct
30	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 husbands	det
31	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 cast	nsubj
32	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 terrors	advmod
33	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 panic	amod
34	panic	panic	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 terrors	compound
35	terrors	terror	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 husbands	nmod
36	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 evince	parataxis
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 weakly	punct
38	Nor	Nor	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 weakly	nsubj
39	weakly	weakly	ADV	_	36 cast	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 hand	punct
41	with	with	ADP	_	45 hand	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 hand	det
43	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 hand	amod
44	despotic	despotic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 hand	amod
45	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cast	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 Imperious	punct
47	Imperious	imperious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 hand	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 impossible	punct
49	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	51 impossible	nsubj
50	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 impossible	cop
51	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 hand	parataxis
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 command	punct
53	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 impossible	parataxis
54	:	:	PUNCT	_	58 discontented	punct
55	And	and	CCONJ	_	58 discontented	cc
56	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 discontented	cop
57	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 discontented	nsubj
58	discontented	discontent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 evince	parataxis
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 fire	punct
60	or	or	CCONJ	_	62 fire	cc
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 fire	det
62	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 discontented	obl
63	Of	of	ADP	_	65 jealousy	case
64	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 jealousy	amod
65	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 fire	nmod
66	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	67 hearts	nmod:poss
67	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 inspire	nsubj
68	inspire	inspire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	65 jealousy	acl:relcl
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 sing	punct
70	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	72 sing	nsubj
71	softly	softly	ADV	_	72 sing	advmod
72	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 discontented	parataxis
73	;	;	PUNCT	_	81 chance	punct
74	and	and	CCONJ	_	81 chance	cc
75	of	of	ADP	_	77 hue	case
76	whatever	whatever	DET	PronType=Int	77 hue	det
77	hue	hue	NOUN	Number=Sing	81 chance	obl
78	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	79 beards	nmod:poss
79	beards	beard	NOUN	Number=Plur	81 chance	nsubj
80	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	81 chance	aux
81	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 evince	parataxis
82	to	to	PART	_	86 black	mark
83	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	86 black	cop
84	,	,	PUNCT	_	86 black	punct
85	or	or	CCONJ	_	86 black	cc
86	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	98 hard	advcl
87	,	,	PUNCT	_	89 blue	punct
88	or	or	CCONJ	_	89 blue	cc
89	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	86 black	conj
90	,	,	PUNCT	_	91 Grizeld	punct
91	Grizeld	Grizeld	PROPN	Number=Sing	86 black	obl
92	,	,	PUNCT	_	94 russet	punct
93	or	or	CCONJ	_	94 russet	cc
94	russet	russet	NOUN	Number=Sing	91 Grizeld	appos
95	,	,	PUNCT	_	86 black	punct
96	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	98 hard	expl
97	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	98 hard	cop
98	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	81 chance	advcl
99	to	to	PART	_	100 say	mark
100	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	98 hard	csubj
101	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	112 sway	obj
102	of	of	ADP	_	107 man	case
103	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	107 man	det
104	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	107 man	nummod
105	,	,	PUNCT	_	107 man	punct
106	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	107 man	det
107	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	112 sway	obl
108	or	or	CCONJ	_	109 wife	cc
109	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	107 man	conj
110	,	,	PUNCT	_	107 man	punct
111	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	112 sway	nsubj
112	sway	sway	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	100 say	ccomp
113	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 evince	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	evince	future	a little share of common sense and knowledge of the world	That	soon property	tree rules
2	is	present	a story		of long pass 'd	tree rules
3	cast	present	no husbands panic terrors		weakly property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	a vain despotic hand		impossible property	tree rules
5	is	infinitive	share		the fire of wicked jealousy obl; discontent property	tree rules
6	inspire	present	share's hearts	wicked jealousy not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus jealousy=Experiencer
7	sing speech: express	present	share		softly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	chance	may	share's beards		of whatever hue	tree rules
9	is	to-infinitive			Grizeld obl; black property	tree rules
10	be					tree rules
11	is	present	share's beards not said here		hard property	tree rules
12	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
13	sway	present	bears		of the two man or wife	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme
14	share			common sense		nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient
15	fire			wicked jealousy		nom fire «event 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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