The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 80
A fine collation was served up, whereof the young Prince ate not a morsel, so intently was he busied in gazing on her.
Who acts: young Prince · What happens: serve up, not eat, busy, gaze · To what, where: fine collation, morsel, Prince
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 (young Prince), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 collation | det |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 collation | amod |
| 3 | collation | collation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 served | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 served | aux:pass |
| 5 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 served | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ate | punct |
| 8 | whereof | whereof | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 ate | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Prince | amod |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ate | nsubj |
| 12 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 served | parataxis |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 ate | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 morsel | det |
| 15 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ate | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 busied | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 busied | advmod |
| 18 | intently | intently | ADV | _ | 21 busied | advmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 busied | aux:pass |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 busied | nsubj |
| 21 | busied | busy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ate | conj |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 23 gazing | mark |
| 23 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 busied | advcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gazing | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve up | past · passive | a fine collation | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | not eat | past | the young Prince | a morsel | whereof property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Patient | |||
| 3 | busy | past · passive | Prince | intently property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | gaze | gerund | on collation | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on she=Theme |
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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