The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 164
The King and the Queen took the ring, examined it with great curiosity, and agreed with the Prince that it could only belong to the daughter of a good house.
Who acts: King, ring · What happens: take, examine, agree, belong · 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 (King, ring), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Queen | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ring | det |
| 8 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 examined | punct |
| 10 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 examined | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 curiosity | case |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 curiosity | amod |
| 14 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 examined | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 agreed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 agreed | cc |
| 17 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 examined | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 Prince | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 agreed | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 belong | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 belong | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 belong | aux |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 belong | advmod |
| 25 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 agreed | xcomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 daughter | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 daughter | det |
| 28 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 belong | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 house | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 house | det |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 house | amod |
| 32 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 daughter | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the King and the Queen | the ring | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 2 | examine | past | the King and the Queen not said here | ring | with great curiosity | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | participle | the King and the Queen not said here | with the Prince | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with prince=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | belong not said to happen | could | ring | to the daughter of a good house | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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