The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 53
Having observed, after he had made her the ordinary compliments, that she was extremely melancholy, he said to her:
Who acts: many, queen · What happens: have, observe, make, be, say · To what, where: ordinary compliments, queen, melancholy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (many, queen), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 said | advcl |
| 2 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 made | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 observed | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 compliments | det |
| 10 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 compliments | amod |
| 11 | compliments | compliment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 made | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 melancholy | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 melancholy | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 melancholy | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 melancholy | cop |
| 16 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 17 melancholy | advmod |
| 17 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | many not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | observe | participle | many not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect | many | the ordinary compliments | queen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary compliment=Product | |||
| 4 | is a | past | queen | melancholy | extremely property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | many | queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
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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