The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 160
The King promised him a great sum of money upon that condition.
Who acts: King · What happens: promise, sum · To what, where: great sum, Thumb, money
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"]. 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 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 promised | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sum | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sum | amod |
| 7 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 promised | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 money | case |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sum | nmod |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 condition | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 condition | det |
| 12 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 promised | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the King | a great sum of money | Thumb | upon that condition | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal sum=Theme | ||
| 2 | sum | money | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=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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