The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], sentence 21
She continued walking, but had not taken thirty steps before Riquet with the Tuft presented himself to her, bravely and most magnificently dressed, like a Prince who was going to be married.
Who acts: Princess, Tuft, Prince · What happens: continue, walk, not take, present, dress, go · To what, where: thirty steps, Tuft, Princess
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Tuft, Prince), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 continued | nsubj |
| 2 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 continued | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 taken | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 taken | cc |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 taken | advmod |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 continued | conj |
| 9 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 steps | nummod |
| 10 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 taken | obj |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 Riquet | case |
| 12 | Riquet | Riquet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obl |
| 13 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 16 presented | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Tuft | det |
| 15 | Tuft | Tuft | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 presented | nsubj |
| 16 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | advcl |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 presented | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 presented | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bravely | punct |
| 21 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 2 continued | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 dressed | cc |
| 23 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 magnificently | advmod |
| 24 | magnificently | magnificently | ADV | _ | 25 dressed | advmod |
| 25 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 continued | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Prince | punct |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 Prince | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 Prince | det |
| 29 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 going | nsubj |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 going | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 going | aux |
| 32 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 dressed | ccomp |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 married | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 married | aux:pass |
| 35 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 going | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Princess | bravely property | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | Princess not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not take | past · perfect | Princess not said here | thirty steps | before Riquet | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent step=Theme before riquet=Destination | |||
| 4 | present | past | the Tuft | Tuft | Princess | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to she=Recipient | |||
| 5 | dress | participle | Princess not said here | magnificently property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go | past · progressive | a Prince | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | a Prince not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
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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