The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 135
The Queen did not finish this touching discourse without moving the Prince to tears.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: not finish, touch, move · To what, where: touching discourse, Prince, tears
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 (Queen), 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 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 finish | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finish | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 finish | advmod |
| 5 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 discourse | det |
| 7 | touching | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 discourse | amod |
| 8 | discourse | discourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finish | obj |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 moving | mark |
| 10 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 finish | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 moving | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 tears | case |
| 14 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 moving | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 finish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not finish | past · do-support | the Queen | this touching discourse | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector discourse=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | touch | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | move | gerund | the Queen not said here | the Prince | tears | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent prince=Theme to tear=Trajectory |
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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