The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3, sentence 19

At last he came into a chamber all gilded with gold, where he saw, upon a bed, the curtains of which were all open, the finest sight was ever beheld: a Princess, who appeared to be about fifteen or sixteen years of age, and whose bright, and in a manner resplendent beauty, had somewhat in it divine.

Who acts: Scarce, Princess · What happens: come, gild, see, be, behold, appear · To what, where: last, chamber, curtains, finest sight, fifteen years, manner resplendent beauty

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 (Scarce, Princess), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 chamber	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chamber	det
7	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 gilded	advmod
9	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 chamber	acl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 gold	case
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gilded	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 saw	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gold	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bed	punct
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 bed	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bed	det
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 curtains	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 curtains	det
22	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 saw	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 open	obl
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 open	cop
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 open	det
27	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 curtains	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 beheld	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sight	det
30	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 sight	amod
31	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 beheld	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 beheld	aux:pass
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 beheld	advmod
34	beheld	behold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 open	conj
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 Princess	punct
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 Princess	det
37	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 appeared	punct
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 appeared	nsubj
40	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 Princess	acl:relcl
41	to	to	PART	_	47 years	mark
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 years	cop
43	about	about	ADV	_	44 fifteen	advmod
44	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 years	nummod
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 sixteen	cc
46	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 fifteen	conj
47	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 appeared	obl:unmarked
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 age	case
49	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 years	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 bright	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 bright	cc
52	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	53 bright	nmod:poss
53	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	parataxis
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 had	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 had	cc
56	in	in	ADP	_	60 beauty	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 beauty	det
58	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 beauty	compound
59	resplendent	resplendent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 beauty	amod
60	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 had	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 beauty	punct
62	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 bright	conj
63	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	62 had	advmod
64	in	in	ADP	_	66 divine	case
65	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 divine	nsubj
66	divine	divine	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 had	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Scarce		last		into a chamber	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial_Location
2	gild	participle		a chamber not said here			with gold; all property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme
3	see	past	Scarce	the curtains			upon a bed	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer curtain=Stimulus
4	is	past					of the curtains; open property	tree rules
5	behold	past · passive		the finest sight		ever		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
6	appear	past	a Princess					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	to-infinitive		fifteen years		of age		tree rules
8	have	past	Scarce not said here		a manner resplendent beauty		in divine; somewhat property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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