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

Nobody doubted but the Fairy gave herein a sample of her art, that the Princess, while she continued sleeping, might have nothing to fear from any curious people.

Who acts: Nobody, Fairy · What happens: doubt, give, continue, sleep, have, fear · To what, where: sample, nothing, art

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 (Nobody, Fairy), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 doubted	nsubj
2	doubted	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 gave	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fairy	det
5	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 doubted	conj
7	herein	herein	ADV	_	6 gave	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sample	det
9	sample	sample	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 art	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 art	nmod:poss
12	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sample	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Princess	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 Princess	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Princess	det
16	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 continued	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 continued	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 continued	nsubj
20	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 doubted	parataxis
21	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 continued	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sleeping	conj
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 have	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 fear	mark
27	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 nothing	acl
28	from	from	ADP	_	31 people	case
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 people	det
30	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 people	amod
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fear	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 doubted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	doubt	past	Nobody			vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	the Fairy	a sample of Fairy's art	the Princess obl; herein property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sample=Theme
3	continue	past	Fairy			vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	sleep	gerund	Fairy not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	might	Fairy not said here	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
6	fear	to-infinitive	Fairy not said here	nothing not said here	from any curious people	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	sample			Fairy's art		nom sample «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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