The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 77
"Truly a fine estate," said the King to the Marquis of Carabas.
Who acts: fine estate · What happens: say · To what, where: Marquis · 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 (fine estate), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 estate | punct |
| 2 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 5 estate | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 estate | det |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 estate | amod |
| 5 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 estate | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 estate | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Marquis | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Marquis | det |
| 13 | Marquis | Marquis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Carabas | case |
| 15 | Carabas | Carabas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Marquis | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a fine estate | the Marquis of Carabas | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to marquis=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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