The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 182
The visitors, in derision, told her that the King had sent for her in order to marry her to his son.
Who acts: visitors · What happens: tell, send, marry · To what, where: joy, King, order · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (visitors), 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 visitors | det |
| 2 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 told | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 derision | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 derision | case |
| 5 | derision | derision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 visitors | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 visitors | punct |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 sent | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sent | aux |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 told | ccomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sent | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 order | case |
| 17 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 marry | mark |
| 19 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sent | advcl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 marry | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 son | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 marry | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the visitors and derision | joy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | send | past · perfect · passive | the King | order | for joy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in order=Destination | |||
| 3 | marry | to-infinitive | joy | to King's son | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient to son=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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