The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 161
The Queen embracing him, agreed with all that the King had said, and the Prince, moved by their tears and caresses, said to them: "My father and my mother, I in no way desire to make a marriage which is displeasing to you."
Who acts: Queen, King, Prince, marriage · What happens: embrace, agree, say, move, make, displease · To what, where: skill, Prince, caresses, marriage · Speech: someone speaks here
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, King, Prince, marriage), 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 | 6 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | embracing | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Queen | acl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 embracing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 agreed | punct |
| 6 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 13 said | mark |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 said | det:predet |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 said | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | aux |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 agreed | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Prince | det |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 moved | punct |
| 19 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 Prince | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 tears | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tears | nmod:poss |
| 22 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 moved | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 caresses | cc |
| 24 | caresses | caress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tears | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Prince | punct |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 agreed | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | obl |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 father | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 father | punct |
| 31 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 father | nmod:poss |
| 32 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 said | ccomp |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 mother | cc |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 mother | nmod:poss |
| 35 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 father | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 desire | punct |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 desire | nsubj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 desire | case |
| 39 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 41 desire | det |
| 40 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 desire | compound |
| 41 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 father | conj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 make | mark |
| 43 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 desire | acl |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 marriage | det |
| 45 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 make | obj |
| 46 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 displeasing | nsubj |
| 47 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 displeasing | aux |
| 48 | displeasing | displease | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 marriage | acl:relcl |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 you | case |
| 50 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 48 displeasing | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 father | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 father | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | gerund | the Queen not said here | skill | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | participle | the Queen | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | move | participle | the Prince not said here | by Princes's tears and caresses | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by tear=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince | caresses = caress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | a marriage | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset marriage=Product | ||||
| 7 | displease in a quote | present · progressive | a marriage | caresses = caress | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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