The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 77
The King himself, old as he was, could not help ogling her, and telling the Queen softly, "that it was a long time since he had seen so beautiful and lovely a creature."
Who acts: King, doubt · What happens: be, not help, ogle, tell, see · To what, where: silence, Queen, long time · 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 (King, doubt), 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 | 12 help | nsubj |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 King | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 old | punct |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 King | amod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 was | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 was | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 old | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 help | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 help | advmod |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | ogling | ogle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 help | xcomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ogling | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 telling | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 telling | cc |
| 17 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 help | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Queen | det |
| 19 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 telling | obj |
| 20 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 17 telling | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 telling | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 time | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 time | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 time | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 time | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 27 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 time | amod |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 telling | obl |
| 29 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 32 seen | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 seen | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 seen | aux |
| 32 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 telling | ccomp |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 beautiful | advmod |
| 34 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 seen | xcomp |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 lovely | cc |
| 36 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 beautiful | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 creature | det |
| 38 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 beautiful | nsubj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 help | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | King | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not help | could | the King King | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ogle not said to happen | gerund | the King King not said here | silence | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the King King not said here | the Queen | softly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | past | doubt | a long time | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | see in a quote | past · perfect | King | beautiful property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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