The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 9
His wife did all she could to convince him she was extremely glad of his speedy return.
Who acts: wife, affair, Beard · What happens: do, convince, be, return · To what, where: all, Beard
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 (wife, affair, Beard), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 could | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 all | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 convince | mark |
| 8 | convince | convince | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 did | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 convince | obj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 glad | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 glad | cop |
| 12 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 13 glad | advmod |
| 13 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 convince | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 return | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 return | nmod:poss |
| 16 | speedy | speedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 return | amod |
| 17 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glad | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Beard's wife | all | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | convince | to-infinitive | Beard's wife not said here | Beard | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | past | affair | of Beard's speedy return; extremely, glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | return | Beard | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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