The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3, sentence 23

He was more at a loss than she, and we need not wonder at it; she had time to think on what to say to him; for it is very probable (though history mentions nothing of it) that the good Fairy, during so long a sleep, had entertained her with pleasant dreams.

Who acts: Prince, we, Princess, discourse, history · What happens: be, not wonder, have, think, say, mention · To what, where: loss, Prince, nothing, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Prince, we, Princess, discourse), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 more	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 more	cop
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 loss	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 loss	det
6	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 more	obl
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 she	case
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 more	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wonder	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wonder	cc
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 wonder	nsubj
12	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 wonder	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 wonder	advmod
14	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 more	parataxis
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wonder	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 more	conj
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 think	mark
22	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 time	acl
23	on	on	SCONJ	_	26 say	mark
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 say	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 say	mark
26	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 think	ccomp
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 say	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 probable	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 probable	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 probable	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 probable	cop
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 probable	advmod
34	probable	probable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 had	parataxis
35	(	(	PUNCT	_	38 mentions	punct
36	though	though	SCONJ	_	38 mentions	mark
37	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 mentions	nsubj
38	mentions	mention	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 probable	conj
39	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	38 mentions	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 nothing	nmod
42	)	)	PUNCT	_	38 mentions	punct
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 Fairy	mark
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Fairy	det
45	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 Fairy	amod
46	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 mentions	advcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 Fairy	punct
48	during	during	ADP	_	52 sleep	case
49	so	so	ADV	_	50 long	advmod
50	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 sleep	amod
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 sleep	det
52	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 mentions	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 entertained	punct
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 entertained	aux
55	entertained	entertain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	52 sleep	conj
56	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 entertained	obj
57	with	with	ADP	_	59 dreams	case
58	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 dreams	amod
59	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 entertained	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 more	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Prince			a loss		than Princess; more property	tree rules
2	not wonder speech: ask	present	we			loss			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	have	past	Princess				time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Princess not said here						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive			Prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to he=Recipient
6	is	present	discourse					probable property	tree rules
7	mention speech: other	present	history	nothing			during a long sleep		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
8	entertain	past · perfect	history not said here	Princess				with pleasant dreams	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

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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