The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], sentence 27
But as he whom I talk to is the man of the world who is master of the greatest sense and judgment, I am sure he will hear reason.
Who acts: Riquet, man, I · What happens: talk, be, hear · To what, where: man, master, reason
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 (Riquet, man, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 sure | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 talk | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 talk | nsubj |
| 4 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 talk | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 talk | nsubj |
| 6 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 sure | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 man | mark |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 man | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 talk | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | nmod |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 master | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 master | cop |
| 16 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | acl:relcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sense | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sense | det |
| 19 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 sense | amod |
| 20 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 master | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 judgment | cc |
| 22 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sense | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 talk | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 sure | nsubj |
| 25 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 sure | cop |
| 26 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 hear | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 hear | aux |
| 29 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 sure | ccomp |
| 30 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hear | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | Riquet | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent whom=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Riquet not said here | the man | of the world | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | the man | master | of the greatest sense and judgment | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hear | future | Riquet | reason | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus |
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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