The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 125
The Prince, though little satisfied by this information, saw that these dense people knew no more, and that it was useless to question them.
Who acts: Prince, dense people, intent · What happens: see, know, be, question · To what, where: more, people
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, dense people, intent), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 satisfied | punct |
| 4 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 satisfied | mark |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 satisfied | amod |
| 6 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Prince | conj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 information | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 information | det |
| 9 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 satisfied | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 knew | mark |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 people | det |
| 14 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 people | amod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | advcl |
| 17 | no | no | ADV | _ | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 knew | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 useless | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 useless | cc |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 useless | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 useless | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 useless | cop |
| 24 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 saw | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 question | mark |
| 26 | question | question | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 useless | advcl |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 question | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | know | past | this dense people | more | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | intent | useless property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | question speech: other | to-infinitive | intent not said here | people | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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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