The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 38
Seven or eight years after this, the Queen of a neighbouring kingdom was delivered of two daughters at a birth.
What happens: neighbour, deliver · To what, where: Queen, birth
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: 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 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 eight | cc |
| 3 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Seven | conj |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 delivered | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 years | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Queen | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 delivered | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 kingdom | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 kingdom | det |
| 12 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 kingdom | amod |
| 13 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Queen | nmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 delivered | aux:pass |
| 15 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 daughters | case |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 daughters | nummod |
| 18 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 delivered | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 birth | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 birth | det |
| 21 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 delivered | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 delivered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | deliver | past · passive | the Queen of a neighbouring kingdom | a birth | year | of two daughters | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme of daughter=Initial_Location |
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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