The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 87
Cinderilla was transported with joy; she asked them the name of that Princess; but they told her they did not know it; and that the King's son was very anxious to learn it, and would give all the world to know who she was.
Who acts: collation, Cinderilla, son · What happens: transport, ask, tell, not know, be, learn · To what, where: Cinderilla, name, collation, world, Princess · 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 (collation, Cinderilla, son), 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 | Cinderilla | Cinderilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 transported | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 transported | aux:pass |
| 3 | transported | transport | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 joy | case |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 transported | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 transported | parataxis |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 name | det |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Princess | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 Princess | det |
| 14 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 name | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 told | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 told | nsubj |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 transported | parataxis |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 told | iobj |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 know | advmod |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 told | ccomp |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 know | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 anxious | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 anxious | cc |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 anxious | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 King | det |
| 29 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 son | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 King | case |
| 31 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 anxious | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 anxious | cop |
| 33 | very | very | ADV | _ | 34 anxious | advmod |
| 34 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 told | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 learn | mark |
| 36 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 anxious | advcl |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 learn | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 give | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 give | cc |
| 40 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 give | aux |
| 41 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 told | conj |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 world | det:predet |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 world | det |
| 44 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 give | obj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 know | mark |
| 46 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 give | advcl |
| 47 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 46 know | ccomp |
| 48 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 who | nsubj |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 who | cop |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 transported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transport | past · passive | Cinderilla | with joy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | collation | the name of that Princess | Cinderilla | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Cinderilla | collation | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not know | past · do-support | Cinderilla | name | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the King's son | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | learn | to-infinitive | the King's son not said here | name | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 7 | give | would | Cinderilla not said here | all world | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme | ||||
| 8 | know | to-infinitive | Cinderilla not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | is a | past | collation | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | name | that Princess | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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