The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3, sentence 11
The young Prince was all on fire at these words, believing, without a moment's doubt, that he could put an end to this rare adventure; and pushed on by love and honour resolved that moment to look into it.
Who acts: young Prince, fire, moment · What happens: be, believe, put, push on, resolve, look · To what, where: fire, end
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Prince, fire, moment), 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 | 3 Prince | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fire | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fire | cop |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 fire | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 fire | case |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 resolved | nsubj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 words | det |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fire | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 believing | punct |
| 12 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 fire | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 doubt | punct |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 doubt | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 moment | det |
| 16 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 doubt | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 moment | case |
| 18 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 believing | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 put | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 put | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 put | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 put | aux |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 believing | advcl |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 adventure | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 adventure | det |
| 28 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 adventure | amod |
| 29 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 pushed | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 pushed | cc |
| 32 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fire | parataxis |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 pushed | compound:prt |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 love | case |
| 35 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pushed | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 honour | cc |
| 37 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 love | conj |
| 38 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 39 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 moment | det |
| 40 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 resolved | obj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 look | mark |
| 42 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 resolved | advcl |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 it | case |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 look | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the young Prince | fire | at this words; all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | believe | gerund | the young Prince not said here | without a moment's doubt | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | put | could | fire | a end | to this rare adventure | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal | |||
| 4 | push on | participle | by love and honour | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent by love=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | resolve | past | fire | moment | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | look | to-infinitive | fire not said here | into honour | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | doubt | a moment | nom doubt «cognition transitive»: 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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