The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 190
But that was scarcely noticed, for the King and Queen came to embrace her heartily, and to ask her if she would marry their son.
Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: notice, come, embrace, ask, marry · To what, where: that, heartily, Queen, son
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 (King, Queen), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 noticed | cc |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 noticed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 noticed | aux:pass |
| 4 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 5 noticed | advmod |
| 5 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Queen | cc |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | conj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 noticed | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 embrace | mark |
| 14 | embrace | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 came | xcomp |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heartily | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heartily | heartily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 embrace | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ask | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ask | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 ask | mark |
| 20 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 embrace | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ask | iobj |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 marry | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 marry | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 marry | aux |
| 25 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ask | advcl |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 son | nmod:poss |
| 27 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 marry | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past · passive | that | scarcely property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the King and Queen | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | embrace | to-infinitive | the King and Queen not said here | Queen's heartily | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heartily=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the King and Queen not said here | Queen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | marry a condition, not said to happen | would | Queen | knees's son | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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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