The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 171
Then, when everyone else had tried, the Prince asked for the kitchen-maids, the scullions, and the sheep-girls.
Who acts: everyone, Prince · What happens: try, ask · To what, where: sheep girls
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 (everyone, Prince), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 tried | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tried | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 tried | advmod |
| 4 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 tried | nsubj |
| 5 | else | else | ADV | _ | 4 everyone | advmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tried | aux |
| 7 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tried | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 maids | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maids | det |
| 14 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 maids | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 kitchen | punct |
| 16 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 asked | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 scullions | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 scullions | det |
| 19 | scullions | scullion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 maids | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 girls | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 girls | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 girls | det |
| 23 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 girls | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 sheep | punct |
| 25 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 asked | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · perfect | everyone | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Prince | the sheep girls | for the kitchen maids and the scullions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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