The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3, sentence 37

He was like to be at war all the summer, and as soon as he departed, the Queen-mother sent her daughter-in-law and her children to a country-house among the woods, that she might with the more ease gratify her horrible longing.

Who acts: Prince, Queen mother, mother · What happens: be, depart, send, gratify, long · To what, where: war, law, country house, horrible longing

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, Queen mother, mother), 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 like	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 like	cop
3	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 war	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 war	cop
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 war	case
7	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 like	conj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 summer	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 summer	det
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 war	nmod:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 departed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 departed	cc
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 soon	advmod
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 departed	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 departed	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 departed	nsubj
17	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 like	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sent	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mother	det
20	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 mother	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Queen	punct
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sent	nsubj
23	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 departed	parataxis
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 law	nmod:poss
25	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 law	nsubj
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 law	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 law	case
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 in	punct
29	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sent	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 children	cc
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 children	nmod:poss
32	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 law	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	37 house	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 house	det
35	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 house	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 country	punct
37	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sent	obl
38	among	among	ADP	_	40 woods	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 woods	det
40	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sent	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 gratify	punct
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 gratify	mark
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 gratify	nsubj
44	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 gratify	aux
45	with	with	ADP	_	48 ease	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 ease	det
47	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	48 ease	amod
48	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 gratify	obl
49	gratify	gratify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sent	conj
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 longing	nmod:poss
51	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 longing	amod
52	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 gratify	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Prince				like property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	Prince not said here		war	summer		tree rules
3	depart	past	Prince				soon property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	send	past	the Queen mother	mother's law and mother's children	a country house		among the woods	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent law=Theme to house=Destination
5	gratify	might	mother	mother's horrible longing			with the more ease	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus longing=Experiencer
6	long		mother					nom longing «feeling intransitive»: 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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