The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 13
And now her two sisters found her to be that fine beautiful lady whom they had seen at the ball.
Who acts: two sisters, that, sisters · What happens: find, be, see · To what, where: Cinderilla, fine beautiful lady, ball
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two sisters, that, sisters), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 found | advmod |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sisters | nummod |
| 5 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 lady | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 lady | cop |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 lady | nsubj |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lady | amod |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lady | amod |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | advcl |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 seen | obj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seen | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 lady | acl:relcl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 ball | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ball | det |
| 20 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seen | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Cinderilla's two sisters | Cinderilla | now | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | that | fine beautiful lady | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | sisters = sister | fine beautiful lady | the ball | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=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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