Songs and rhymes, sentence 9

Au clair de la lune means "in the moonlight"; Pierrot is a sad clown with a white face, and prête-moi ta plume means "lend me your pen", an old feather pen.

Who acts: Au la lune, Pierrot, moi · What happens: mean, be, prête, lend · To what, where: moonlight, sad clown, old feather pen, pen, Many people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Songs and rhymes» of the french course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Au la lune, Pierrot, moi), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Au	Au	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lune	compound
2	clair	Clair	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Au	flat
3	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Au	flat
4	la	la	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lune	amod
5	lune	lune	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 moonlight	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 moonlight	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 moonlight	det
10	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 moonlight	punct
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 clown	punct
13	Pierrot	Pierrot	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 clown	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 clown	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 clown	det
16	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 clown	amod
17	clown	clown	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 face	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 face	det
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 face	amod
21	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 clown	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 prête	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 prête	cc
24	prête	prête	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 means	conj
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 moi	punct
26	moi	moi	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 means	nsubj
27	ta	ta	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 plume	compound
28	plume	plume	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 moi	appos
29	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 prête	ccomp
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 lend	punct
31	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 means	conj
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 lend	iobj
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 pen	nmod:poss
34	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lend	obj
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 lend	punct
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 pen	punct
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 pen	det
38	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 pen	amod
39	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 pen	compound
40	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 prête	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Au la lune	the moonlight			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moonlight=Topic
2	is a	present	Pierrot	a sad clown		with a white face	tree rules
3	prête	infinitive	Au la lune not said here	a old feather pen			tree rules
4	mean	present	moi				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	lend in a quote	infinitive	moi not said here	your pen	Many people = people		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pen=Theme

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:french:031-songs-and-rhymes.lesson:9.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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