Kings, queens and emperors, sentence 7
There is no evidence that Marie Antoinette said "Let them eat cake"; a similar line about a great princess appears in a book by Rousseau written when she was a child of about ten living in Austria.
Who acts: evidence, Marie, inches, similar line, line, child · What happens: be, say, let, eat, appear, write · To what, where: evidence, cake, book, child, Austria · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Kings, queens and emperors» of the myths 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 (evidence, Marie, inches, similar line), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 evidence | det |
| 4 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 said | mark |
| 6 | Marie | Marie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 7 | Antoinette | Antoinette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Marie | flat |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 evidence | acl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Let | punct |
| 10 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 eat | nsubj |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Let | xcomp |
| 13 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eat | obj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Let | punct |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 appears | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 line | det |
| 17 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 line | amod |
| 18 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 appears | nsubj |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 princess | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 princess | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 princess | amod |
| 22 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 line | nmod |
| 23 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | parataxis |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 book | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 book | det |
| 26 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 appears | obl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 Rousseau | case |
| 28 | Rousseau | Rousseau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 book | nmod |
| 29 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 book | acl |
| 30 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 34 child | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 child | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 child | cop |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 child | det |
| 34 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 written | advcl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 ten | case |
| 36 | about | about | ADV | _ | 37 ten | advmod |
| 37 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 child | nmod |
| 38 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 child | acl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 Austria | case |
| 40 | Austria | Austria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 living | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no evidence | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Marie | no evidence not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | infinitive | inches = inch | cake | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient | ||||
| 5 | appear | present | a similar line about a great princess | a book by Rousseau | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in book=Location | ||||
| 6 | write | participle | a book by Rousseau not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | line | a child | of ten | tree rules | |||
| 8 | live | gerund | a child not said here | Austria | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in austria=Location |
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:myths:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson:7.
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): R6-punct-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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