The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], sentence 6

The King governed himself by her advice, and would even sometimes hold a council in her apartment.

Who acts: King · What happens: govern, hold · To what, where: King, council, apartment

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 (King), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 governed	nsubj
3	governed	govern	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 governed	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 advice	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 advice	nmod:poss
7	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 governed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hold	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hold	cc
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hold	aux
11	even	even	ADV	_	13 hold	advmod
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 hold	advmod
13	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 governed	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 council	det
15	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hold	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 apartment	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 apartment	nmod:poss
18	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hold	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 governed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	govern	past	the King	King				by Princess's advice	vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	hold	would		a council		Princess's apartment		sometimes property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent council=Theme in apartment=Location

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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