The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], sentence 4

When she returned to the palace, the whole Court knew not what to think of such a sudden and extraordinary change; for they heard from her now as much sensible discourse, and as many infinitely witty turns, as they had stupid and silly impertinences before.

Who acts: Princess, whole Court, they, turns · What happens: return, not know, think, hear, have · To what, where: much sensible discourse, stupid impertinences

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, whole Court, they, turns), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 returned	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 returned	nsubj
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 knew	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 returned	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Court	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Court	amod
10	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 knew	nsubj
11	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 knew	advmod
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 knew	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 think	mark
15	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 what	acl
16	of	of	ADP	_	22 change	case
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 change	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 change	det
19	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 change	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 extraordinary	cc
21	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sudden	conj
22	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 think	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 heard	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 heard	case
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 heard	nsubj
26	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 knew	parataxis
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 heard	obl
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 much	advmod
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 discourse	amod
32	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 discourse	amod
33	discourse	discourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heard	obl:unmarked
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 turns	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 turns	cc
36	as	as	ADV	_	37 many	advmod
37	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 turns	amod
38	infinitely	infinitely	ADV	_	39 witty	advmod
39	witty	witty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 turns	amod
40	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 heard	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 had	punct
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 had	mark
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 had	nsubj
44	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 heard	conj
45	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 impertinences	amod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 silly	cc
47	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 stupid	conj
48	impertinences	impertinence	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 had	obj
49	before	before	ADV	_	44 had	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	return	past	Princess		to the palace result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result
2	not know	past	the whole Court			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the whole Court not said here		of such sudden change	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear	past	they	much sensible discourse	from Princess	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from she=Source
5	have	past	turns = turn	stupid impertinences	before property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impertinence=Patient

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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