The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 32

There was, once upon a time, a Queen, who was brought to bed of a son, so hideously ugly, that it was long disputed, whether he had human form.

Who acts: son · What happens: be, bring, dispute, have · To what, where: Queen, bed, human form

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 (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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 once	punct
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 once	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Queen	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Queen	det
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 brought	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 brought	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 brought	aux:pass
14	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 Queen	acl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 bed	case
16	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brought	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 son	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 son	det
19	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bed	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ugly	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 ugly	advmod
22	hideously	hideously	ADV	_	23 ugly	advmod
23	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 disputed	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 disputed	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 disputed	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 disputed	aux:pass
28	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 disputed	advmod
29	disputed	dispute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 ugly	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
31	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	33 had	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 disputed	conj
34	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 form	amod
35	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past		a Queen	there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring	past · passive		a Queen		to bed of a son	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
3	dispute	past · passive		bed		long property	tree rules
4	have	past	son	human form			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=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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