The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 6

The Princess had no sooner pronounced these words, but Riquet with the Tuft appeared to her the finest Prince upon earth; the handsomest and most amiable man she ever saw.

Who acts: Princess, Riquet, handsomest man · What happens: have, pronounce, appear, see · To what, where: words, finest Prince, Princess

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 (Princess, Riquet, handsomest man), 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 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 sooner	det
5	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 pronounced	advmod
6	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	advcl
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 words	det
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pronounced	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 appeared	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 appeared	cc
11	Riquet	riquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 appeared	nsubj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 Tuft	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Tuft	det
14	Tuft	Tuft	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Riquet	nmod
15	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 appeared	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Prince	det
19	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 Prince	amod
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 appeared	obj
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 earth	case
22	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 appeared	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 saw	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 man	det
25	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 man	amod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 amiable	cc
27	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	28 amiable	advmod
28	amiable	amiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 handsomest	conj
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 saw	nsubj
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 saw	nsubj
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 saw	advmod
32	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Princess					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	pronounce	past	the Princess not said here	this words			soon property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	appear	past	Riquet with the Tuft	the finest Prince	Princess		upon earth	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prince=Theme
4	see	past	the handsomest man			ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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