The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 85

"Be reassured, O King and Queen; your daughter shall not die of this disaster: it is true, I have no power to undo intirely what my elder has done.

Who acts: daughter, disaster, body, elder · What happens: reassure, not die, be, have, undo, do · To what, where: O King, power · 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 (daughter, disaster, body, elder), 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 reassured	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 reassured	aux:pass
3	reassured	reassure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 King	punct
5	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 King	compound
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reassured	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Queen	cc
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 King	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 die	punct
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 daughter	nmod:poss
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 die	nsubj
12	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 die	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 die	advmod
14	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 reassured	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 disaster	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 disaster	det
17	disaster	disaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 die	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 true	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 true	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 true	cop
21	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reassured	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 true	parataxis
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 power	det
26	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 undo	mark
28	undo	undo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 power	acl
29	intirely	intirely	ADV	_	30 what	advmod
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 done	obj
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 elder	nmod:poss
32	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 done	nsubj
33	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 done	aux
34	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 undo	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reassured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reassure in a quote	infinitive · passive		O King and Queen		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
2	not die in a quote	shall	your daughter		of this disaster	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of disaster=Causer
3	is in a quote	present	disaster		true property	tree rules
4	have in a quote	present	every body = body	no power		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
5	undo in a quote	to-infinitive	every body = body not said here	no power not said here		tree rules
6	do in a quote	present · perfect	my elder			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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