The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 4

They whom he employed began to try it on upon the Princesses, then the duchesses, and all the Court, but in vain.

Who acts: son, slippers · What happens: employ, begin, try · To what, where: 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 (son, slippers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 began	nsubj
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 employed	obj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 employed	nsubj
4	employed	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 They	acl:relcl
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 try	mark
7	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 try	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 Princesses	case
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 Princesses	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princesses	det
12	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 try	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 duchesses	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 duchesses	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 duchesses	det
16	duchesses	duchess	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Princesses	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Court	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Court	cc
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 Court	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Court	det
21	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Princesses	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 vain	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 vain	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 vain	case
25	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 began	parataxis
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	employ	past	son			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme
2	begin	past	slippers = slipper			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	try	to-infinitive	slippers = slipper not said here	ball	on the Princesses and the duchesses	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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