The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 62
One day in particular, when he knew for certain that the King was to take the air, along the river side, with his daughter, the most beautiful Princess in the world, he said to his master:
Who acts: Cat, King · What happens: know, be, say · To what, where: master · 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: who acts (Cat, King), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 particular | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 particular | case |
| 4 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 knew | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 knew | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 particular | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 certain | case |
| 10 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 knew | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 take | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 knew | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 side | punct |
| 20 | along | along | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 side | det |
| 22 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 side | compound |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 daughter | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 daughter | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 27 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Princess | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Princess | det |
| 30 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 31 beautiful | advmod |
| 31 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Princess | amod |
| 32 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 world | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 world | det |
| 35 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Princess | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 said | punct |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 said | nsubj |
| 38 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 particular | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 master | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 master | nmod:poss |
| 41 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 said | obl |
| 42 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 particular | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Cat | for certain | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the King | along the river side; with Cat's daughter; the beautiful Princess in the world obl; take property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Cat | Cat's master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to master=Recipient |
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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