The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 183
Then with loud peals of laughter they led her to the Prince, who was astonished at the garb of this girl, and dared not believe that it was she whom he had seen so majestic and so beautiful.
Who acts: visitors, Prince · What happens: lead, be, not dare, not believe, see · To what, where: joy, garb · 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, 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 | 8 led | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 peals | case |
| 3 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 peals | amod |
| 4 | peals | peal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 led | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 laughter | case |
| 6 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 led | nsubj |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 led | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Prince | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 astonished | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 astonished | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 astonished | cop |
| 16 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Prince | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 garb | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 garb | det |
| 19 | garb | garb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 astonished | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 girl | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 girl | det |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 garb | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dared | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 dared | cc |
| 25 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 led | parataxis |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 dared | advmod |
| 27 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 dared | xcomp |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 seen | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 seen | aux:pass |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 seen | nsubj |
| 32 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 seen | obj |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 seen | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 seen | aux |
| 35 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 believe | ccomp |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 majestic | advmod |
| 37 | majestic | majestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 seen | xcomp |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 beautiful | cc |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 beautiful | advmod |
| 40 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 dared | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | visitors = visitor | joy | then | with loud peals; of laughter; to the Prince | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme of laughter=Destination | ||
| 2 | is | past | the Prince | the garb of this girl | astonished property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not dare | past | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | not believe | infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | see | past · perfect · passive | garb | majestic property | tree rules |
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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