The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 79
The King's son conducted her to the most honourable seat, and afterwards took her out to dance with him: she danced so very gracefully, that they all more and more admired her.
Who acts: son, silence, ladies · What happens: conduct, take out, dance, all, admire · To what, where: silence, honourable seat, more
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 (son, silence, ladies), 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 | 5 conducted | nsubj |
| 5 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 conducted | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 seat | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 seat | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 honourable | advmod |
| 10 | honourable | honourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 seat | amod |
| 11 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 conducted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 14 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 15 took | advmod |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 conducted | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 took | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 dance | mark |
| 19 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 took | advcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 dance | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 danced | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 danced | nsubj |
| 24 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 conducted | parataxis |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 gracefully | advmod |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 gracefully | advmod |
| 27 | gracefully | gracefully | ADV | _ | 24 danced | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 all | punct |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 all | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 all | nsubj |
| 31 | all | all | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 danced | conj |
| 32 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 all | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 admired | cc |
| 34 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 35 admired | advmod |
| 35 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 more | conj |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 admired | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 conducted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conduct | past | the King's son | silence | the honourable seat | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to seat=Destination | |||
| 2 | take out | past | the King's son not said here | silence | afterwards property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | dance | to-infinitive | the King's son not said here | with son | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dance | past | silence | gracefully property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | all | present | ladies = lady | more | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | admire | past | ladies = lady not said here | silence | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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