The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 192
The King and Queen, overjoyed to know that Donkey-skin was a great Princess redoubled their caresses, but the Prince was even more sensible of her virtue, and his love increased as the Fairy unfolded her tale.
Who acts: Donkey skin, King, Prince, love, Fairy, Princes · What happens: overjoy, know, be, redouble, increase, unfold · To what, where: King, great Princess, caresses, tale · 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 (Donkey skin, King, Prince, love), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg29021:725): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 redoubled | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Queen | cc |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 overjoyed | punct |
| 6 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 King | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 know | mark |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 overjoyed | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 Princess | mark |
| 10 | Donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 skin | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Donkey | punct |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Princess | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Princess | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Princess | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Princess | amod |
| 16 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 know | ccomp |
| 17 | redoubled | redouble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 caresses | nmod:poss |
| 19 | caresses | caress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 redoubled | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sensible | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 sensible | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Prince | det |
| 23 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 sensible | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 sensible | cop |
| 25 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 more | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 sensible | advmod |
| 27 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 redoubled | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 virtue | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 virtue | nmod:poss |
| 30 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sensible | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 increased | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 increased | cc |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 love | nmod:poss |
| 34 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 increased | nsubj |
| 35 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 redoubled | conj |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 unfolded | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Fairy | det |
| 38 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 unfolded | nsubj |
| 39 | unfolded | unfold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 increased | advcl |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 tale | nmod:poss |
| 41 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 unfolded | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 redoubled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | participle | the King and Queen not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | Donkey skin | a great Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | redouble | past | the King and Queen | Princes's caresses | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent caress=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the Prince | of Princess's virtue; sensible property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | increase | past | King's love | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | unfold | past | the Fairy | Princess's tale | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tale=Patient | ||||
| 8 | caress | Princes = prince | nom caress «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | love | King | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | tell | Princess | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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