The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 26
Our young misses were also invited; for they cut a very grand figure among the quality.
Who acts: Misses · What happens: invite, cut · To what, where: young misses, grand figure
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 (Misses), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 misses | nmod:poss |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 misses | amod |
| 3 | misses | miss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 invited | aux:pass |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 invited | advmod |
| 6 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 invited | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 cut | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cut | nsubj |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 invited | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 figure | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 grand | advmod |
| 13 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 figure | amod |
| 14 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cut | obj |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 quality | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 quality | det |
| 17 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cut | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past · passive | Our young misses | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | cut | present | Misses = miss | a grand figure | among the quality | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset figure=Product |
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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