The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 87

The King, to avoid the misfortune foretold by the old Fairy, caused immediately proclamations to be made, whereby every-body was forbidden, on pain of death, to spin with a distaff and spindle or to have so much as any spindle in their houses.

Who acts: King · What happens: avoid, foretell, cause, make, forbid, spin · To what, where: misfortune, proclamations, body, pain, much, death

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 (King), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 caused	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 avoid	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	5 avoid	mark
5	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 King	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 misfortune	det
7	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 avoid	obj
8	foretold	foretell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 misfortune	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 Fairy	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Fairy	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Fairy	amod
12	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 foretold	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 King	punct
14	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	16 proclamations	advmod
16	proclamations	proclamation	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 caused	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 made	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 made	aux:pass
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 proclamations	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 forbidden	punct
21	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	26 forbidden	advmod
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 body	det
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 every	punct
24	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 forbidden	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 forbidden	aux:pass
26	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 proclamations	acl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pain	punct
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 pain	case
29	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 forbidden	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 death	case
31	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pain	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 spin	punct
33	to	to	PART	_	34 spin	mark
34	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 forbidden	conj
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 distaff	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 distaff	det
37	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 spin	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 spindle	cc
39	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 distaff	conj
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 have	cc
41	to	to	PART	_	42 have	mark
42	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 spin	conj
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 much	advmod
44	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 have	obj
45	as	as	ADP	_	47 spindle	case
46	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	47 spindle	det
47	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 much	nmod
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 houses	case
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 houses	nmod:poss
50	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 spindle	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 caused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	avoid	to-infinitive		the misfortune			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent misfortune=Location
2	foretell	participle		the misfortune not said here		by the old Fairy	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	cause	past	the King	proclamations			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition proclamation=Patient
4	make	to-infinitive · passive	the King not said here	proclamations not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
5	forbid	past · passive		every body	pain of death	whereby property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	spin	to-infinitive				with a distaff and spindle	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	have	to-infinitive		much		as any spindle in King's houses	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
8	pain			death			nom pain «state 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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