The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 2
They passed into a spacious hall, where they found a magnificent collation which the Ogre had prepared for his friends, who were that very day to visit him, but dared not to enter knowing the King was there.
Who acts: They, friends, King · What happens: pass, find, prepare, be, visit, dare · To what, where: spacious hall, magnificent collation, day, Marquis · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (They, friends, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 hall | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hall | det |
| 5 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hall | amod |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 found | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 collation | det |
| 12 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 collation | amod |
| 13 | collation | collation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Ogre | det |
| 16 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 prepared | aux |
| 18 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 collation | acl:relcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 friends | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friends | nmod:poss |
| 21 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 prepared | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 day | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 day | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 day | cop |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 day | mark |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 day | advmod |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 friends | acl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 visit | mark |
| 29 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 day | acl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 visit | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 dared | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 dared | cc |
| 33 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | conj |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 enter | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 enter | mark |
| 36 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 dared | xcomp |
| 37 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 enter | xcomp |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 King | det |
| 39 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 there | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 there | cop |
| 41 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 knowing | ccomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | They | a spacious hall | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | they | a magnificent collation | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collation=Topic | ||||
| 3 | prepare | past · perfect · passive | a magnificent collation | for Marquis's friends | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for friend=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Marquis's friends | day | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | visit | to-infinitive | Marquis | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||||
| 6 | dare | past | They not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | not enter | to-infinitive | They not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | know | gerund | They not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | is | past | the King | there property | 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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