The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 98

The guards at the palace gate were asked if they had not seen a Princess go out; who said, they had seen nobody go out, but a young girl, very meanly dressed, and who had more the air of a poor country wench, than a gentle-woman.

Who acts: guards, Princess, nobody · What happens: ask, not see, go out, say, see, dress · To what, where: guards, Princess, nobody, more air · 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 (guards, Princess, nobody), 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 guards	det
2	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 asked	nsubj:pass
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 gate	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gate	det
5	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gate	compound
6	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guards	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	aux:pass
8	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 seen	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seen	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 seen	advmod
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 asked	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seen	obj
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seen	xcomp
17	out	out	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seen	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 seen	aux
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 said	ccomp
25	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 seen	obj
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 seen	xcomp
27	out	out	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 girl	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 girl	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 girl	det
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 girl	amod
32	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dressed	punct
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 meanly	advmod
35	meanly	meanly	ADV	_	36 dressed	advmod
36	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 asked	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 had	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 had	cc
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 had	nsubj
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	parataxis
41	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	43 air	amod
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 air	det
43	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	48 wench	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 wench	det
46	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 wench	amod
47	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 wench	compound
48	wench	wench	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 air	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 woman	punct
50	than	than	ADP	_	54 woman	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 woman	det
52	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 woman	amod
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 gentle	punct
54	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past · passive		the guards at the palace gate		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	not see a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	guards = guard	a Princess		tree rules
3	go out	infinitive	a Princess not said here		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	see	past · perfect	guards = guard	nobody		tree rules
6	go out	infinitive	nobody not said here		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	dress	participle			meanly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	have	past		the more air of a poor country wench	than a gentle woman	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=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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