The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 72
The King's son, who was told that a great Princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her; he gave her his hand as she alighted out of the coach, and led her into the hall, among all the company.
Who acts: nobody, son, tale · What happens: tell, know, be, run out, receive, give · To what, where: son, great Princess, tale, hand, coach, hall · 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 (nobody, son, tale), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 told | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | aux:pass |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 son | acl:relcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 Princess | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Princess | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Princess | amod |
| 12 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 knew | obj |
| 15 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | cop |
| 19 | come | come | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 knew | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 21 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 ran | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 receive | mark |
| 24 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 ran | advcl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 receive | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 gave | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 gave | nsubj |
| 28 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ran | conj |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 gave | iobj |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 hand | nmod:poss |
| 31 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gave | obj |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 alighted | mark |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 alighted | nsubj |
| 34 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 gave | advcl |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 coach | case |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 coach | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 coach | det |
| 38 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 alighted | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 led | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 led | cc |
| 41 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ran | conj |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 led | obj |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 hall | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 hall | det |
| 45 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 led | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 company | punct |
| 47 | among | among | ADP | _ | 50 company | case |
| 48 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 50 company | det:predet |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 company | det |
| 50 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 led | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | the King's son | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | know | past | nobody | a great Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | nobody not said here | come property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | run out | past | the King's son | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | receive | to-infinitive | the King's son not said here | tale | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | give | past | son | son's hand | tale | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient hand=Theme | |||
| 7 | alight | participle | tale | the coach | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | lead | past | the King's son not said here | tale | the hall | among all company | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into hall=Destination |
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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