The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 170
At last it was the turn of the chamber-maids; but they succeeded no better.
Who acts: trial, Princes · What happens: be, succeed · To what, where: last turn
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 (trial, Princes), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 turn | amod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 turn | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turn | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 turn | det |
| 6 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 maids | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 maids | det |
| 9 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 maids | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 chamber | punct |
| 11 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 turn | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 succeeded | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 succeeded | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 succeeded | nsubj |
| 15 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turn | conj |
| 16 | no | no | ADV | _ | 17 better | advmod |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 succeeded | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | trial | the last turn | of the chamber maids | tree rules | |||
| 2 | succeed | past | Princes = prince | good property | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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