The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 68

Long before the seventeenth century the word _vair_ had passed out of use, except as a heraldic term, and had ceased to convey any meaning to the people.

What happens: pass out, cease, convey · To what, where: vair, use, meaning, people

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: 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	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	before	before	ADP	_	5 century	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 century	det
4	seventeenth	seventeenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 century	compound
5	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Long	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 word	det
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 century	obj
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 passed	punct
9	vair	vair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 passed	nsubj:pass
10	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 passed	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 passed	aux
12	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 word	appos
13	out	out	ADP	_	15 use	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 use	case
15	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 passed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 term	punct
17	except	except	ADP	_	21 term	case
18	as	as	ADP	_	21 term	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 term	det
20	heraldic	heraldic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 term	amod
21	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 passed	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ceased	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ceased	cc
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 ceased	aux
25	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 term	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 convey	mark
27	convey	convey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 ceased	xcomp
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 meaning	det
29	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 convey	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 people	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 people	det
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 convey	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	pass out	past · perfect · passive	vair		use	tree rules
2	cease	past · perfect				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	convey	to-infinitive	any meaning	the people		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic to people=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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