The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 98

One would have taken her for an angel, she was so very beautiful; for her swooning away had not diminished one bit of her complexion; her cheeks were carnation, and her lips like coral; indeed her eyes were shut, but she was heard to breathe softly, which satisfied those about her that she was not dead.

Who acts: Princess, cheeks, eyes · What happens: take, be, swoon away, not diminish, hear, breathe · To what, where: One, one bit, carnation, Princess, those

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 (Princess, cheeks, eyes), 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	One	one	PRON	PronType=Ind	4 taken	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 taken	aux
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taken	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 angel	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 angel	det
8	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 beautiful	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 beautiful	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 beautiful	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 beautiful	advmod
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 beautiful	advmod
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 taken	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 swooning	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 swooning	mark
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 swooning	nsubj
18	swooning	swoon	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 beautiful	advcl
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 swooning	advmod
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 diminished	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 diminished	advmod
22	diminished	diminish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 swooning	advcl
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 bit	nummod
24	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 diminished	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 complexion	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 complexion	nmod:poss
27	complexion	complexion	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bit	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 carnation	punct
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 cheeks	nmod:poss
30	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 carnation	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 carnation	cop
32	carnation	carnation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lips	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 lips	cc
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 lips	nmod:poss
36	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taken	obl
37	like	like	ADP	_	38 coral	case
38	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lips	nmod
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 shut	punct
40	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	44 shut	advmod
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 eyes	nmod:poss
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 shut	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 shut	cop
44	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 taken	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 heard	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 heard	cc
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 heard	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 heard	aux:pass
49	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 taken	conj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 breathe	mark
51	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 heard	xcomp
52	softly	softly	ADV	_	51 breathe	advmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 satisfied	punct
54	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 satisfied	nsubj
55	satisfied	satisfy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 heard	conj
56	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	55 satisfied	obj
57	about	about	ADP	_	58 her	case
58	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 satisfied	obl
59	that	that	SCONJ	_	63 dead	mark
60	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 dead	nsubj
61	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 dead	cop
62	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	63 dead	advmod
63	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 satisfied	advcl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	would · perfect · passive		One	for a angel; Princess's lips like coral obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme she=Destination
2	is	past	Princess		beautiful property	tree rules
3	swoon away	gerund	Princess		away property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not diminish	past · perfect	Princess not said here	one bit of Princess's complexion		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer bit=Patient
5	is a	past	Princess's cheeks	carnation		tree rules
6	is	past	Princess's eyes		indeed, shut property	tree rules
7	hear	past · passive		Princess		tree rules
8	breathe	to-infinitive	Princess not said here		softly property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	satisfy	past		those	about Princess	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer
10	not is	past	Princess		dead property	tree rules

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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