The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 158
The doctors, not knowing what more to do, declared to the Queen that the Prince's malady was love, whereupon the Queen and the disconsolate King ran to their son.
Who acts: doctors, malady, Queen · What happens: not know, do, declare, be, run · To what, where: Queen, love
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 (doctors, malady, 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 doctors | det |
| 2 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 declared | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 knowing | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 knowing | advmod |
| 5 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 doctors | acl |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 do | obj |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 what | amod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 knowing | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 declared | punct |
| 11 | declared | declare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Queen | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Queen | det |
| 14 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 declared | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 love | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Prince | det |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 malady | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Prince | case |
| 19 | malady | malady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 love | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 love | cop |
| 21 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 declared | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ran | punct |
| 23 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 ran | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Queen | det |
| 25 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 ran | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 King | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 King | det |
| 28 | disconsolate | disconsolate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 King | amod |
| 29 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Queen | conj |
| 30 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 love | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 son | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 son | nmod:poss |
| 33 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ran | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | gerund | the doctors not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the doctors not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | participle | the doctors | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to queen=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the Prince's malady | love | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | run | past | the Queen and the disconsolate King | to doctors's son result; whereupon property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to son=Result |
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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