The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 166

He ordered the drums and fifes and trumpets to be sounded throughout the town, and the heralds to cry that she whose finger a certain ring would fit should marry the heir to the throne.

Who acts: King, heralds, Queen, certain ring · What happens: order, sound, cry, finger, fit, marry · To what, where: drums, town, finger, heir

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, heralds, Queen, certain 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ordered	nsubj
2	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 drums	det
4	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ordered	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fifes	cc
6	fifes	fife	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drums	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 trumpets	cc
8	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drums	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	11 sounded	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 sounded	aux:pass
11	sounded	sound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ordered	advcl
12	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	14 town	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 town	det
14	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sounded	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cry	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cry	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 heralds	det
18	heralds	herald	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cry	nsubj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 cry	mark
20	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ordered	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 finger	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 finger	nsubj
23	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	24 finger	nmod:poss
24	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cry	obj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 ring	det
26	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ring	amod
27	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fit	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 fit	aux
29	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 finger	acl:relcl
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 marry	aux
31	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 cry	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 heir	det
33	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 marry	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 throne	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 throne	det
36	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 marry	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	order	past	King	the drums and fifes and trumpets			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Theme
2	sound	to-infinitive · passive	King not said here		the town		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: throughout town=Location
3	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	the heralds				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	finger		Queen				tree rules
5	fit	would	a certain ring	finger not said here			vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient
6	marry	should	the heralds not said here	the heir		to the throne	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent heir=Patient to throne=Co-Patient

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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