The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 194
The King and Queen, now entirely devoted to their daughter-in-law, overwhelmed her with affection.
Who acts: King · What happens: devote, overwhelm · To what, where: King, daughter, Queen
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), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 overwhelmed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Queen | cc |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 devoted | punct |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 devoted | advmod |
| 7 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 8 devoted | advmod |
| 8 | devoted | devote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 King | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 daughter | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 devoted | obl |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 law | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 law | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 in | punct |
| 15 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 overwhelmed | punct |
| 17 | overwhelmed | overwhelm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 overwhelmed | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 affection | case |
| 20 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 overwhelmed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 overwhelmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devote | participle | the King and Queen not said here | preparations's daughter and law | now | entirely property | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent to daughter=Goal | ||
| 2 | overwhelm | past | the King and Queen | Queen | with affection | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
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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