The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 55
He was shewed up stairs into the King's apartment, and, making a low reverence, said to him:
What happens: shew up, make, say · To what, where: Proud, apartment, low reverence · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 shewed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shewed | aux:pass |
| 3 | shewed | shew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 shewed | compound:prt |
| 5 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shewed | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 apartment | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 apartment | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 King | case |
| 10 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shewed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 making | punct |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 said | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 reverence | det |
| 16 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 reverence | amod |
| 17 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 making | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 making | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shewed | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 shewed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shew up | past · passive | Proud | the King's apartment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | a low reverence | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset reverence=Product | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Proud | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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