The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 177
The Princess, who had heard the drums and the cries of the heralds, had no doubt that the ring was the cause of this uproar.
Who acts: Princess, ring, heralds · What happens: hear, have, be, cry · To what, where: drums, doubt, cause
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 (Princess, ring, heralds), 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 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | aux |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 drums | det |
| 8 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 heard | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cries | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cries | det |
| 11 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drums | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 heralds | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 heralds | det |
| 14 | heralds | herald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cries | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Princess | punct |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 doubt | det |
| 18 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 cause | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ring | det |
| 21 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cause | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 cause | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cause | det |
| 24 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 doubt | acl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 uproar | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 uproar | det |
| 27 | uproar | uproar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cause | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | the Princess | the drums and the cries of the heralds | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer drum=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the Princess | no doubt | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the ring | the cause | of this uproar | tree rules | |||
| 4 | cry | the heralds | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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