The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 19
No sooner were the ceremonies of the wedding over, but the stepmother began to shew herself in her colours.
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: be, begin, shew · To what, where: ceremonies, stepmother, colours
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 ceremonies | advmod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ceremonies | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ceremonies | det |
| 5 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wedding | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wedding | det |
| 8 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ceremonies | nmod |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 wedding | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stepmother | det |
| 13 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 began | nsubj |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ceremonies | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 shew | mark |
| 16 | shew | shew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 shew | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 colours | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 colours | nmod:poss |
| 20 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shew | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ceremonies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the ceremonies | of the wedding; soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the stepmother | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | shew | to-infinitive | the stepmother not said here | stepmother | stepmother's colours | tree rules |
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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