The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 5
The Marquis making several low bows, accepted the honour which his Majesty conferred upon him, and forthwith, that very same day, married the Princess.
Who acts: Marquis, Majesty · What happens: make, accept, confer, marry · To what, where: several low bows, honour, Princess
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 (Marquis, Majesty), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Marquis | det |
| 2 | Marquis | Marquis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 accepted | nsubj |
| 3 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Marquis | acl |
| 4 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bows | amod |
| 5 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bows | amod |
| 6 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 making | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Marquis | punct |
| 8 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 honour | det |
| 10 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 accepted | obj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 conferred | obj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 conferred | nsubj |
| 14 | conferred | confer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 honour | acl:relcl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 conferred | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 forthwith | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 forthwith | cc |
| 19 | forthwith | forthwith | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 accepted | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 day | punct |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 day | det |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 same | advmod |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 day | amod |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forthwith | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 married | punct |
| 26 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 accepted | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Princess | det |
| 28 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 married | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | the Marquis not said here | several low bows | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bow=Product | ||||
| 2 | accept | past | the Marquis | the honour | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Theme | ||||
| 3 | confer | past | Marquis's Majesty | the honour | upon Marquis | tree rules | |||
| 4 | marry | past | the Marquis not said here | the Princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |
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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