The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 154
Indeed, the Prince came near to being choked by the ring, which he nearly swallowed, in one of the pieces of cake.
Who acts: Prince, man · What happens: come, choke, swallow · To what, where: ring
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, 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | near | near | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 9 choked | mark |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 choked | aux:pass |
| 9 | choked | choke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 came | advcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 ring | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ring | det |
| 12 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 choked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 swallowed | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 swallowed | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 swallowed | nsubj |
| 16 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 17 swallowed | advmod |
| 17 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ring | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 one | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 swallowed | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 pieces | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pieces | det |
| 23 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 one | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 cake | case |
| 25 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pieces | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Prince | indeed, near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | choke | gerund · passive | the Prince not said here | by the ring | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | swallow | past | man | the ring | nearly property | tree rules |
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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