The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 195
She had declared that she could not marry the Prince without the consent of the King her father, so, he was the first to whom an invitation to the wedding was sent; he was not, however, told the name of the bride.
Who acts: Queen, King · What happens: declare, not marry, be, send, not be, consent · To what, where: Prince, invitation, King, bride
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 (Queen, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 declared | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 declared | aux |
| 3 | declared | declare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 marry | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 marry | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 marry | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 marry | advmod |
| 8 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 declared | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 marry | obj |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 consent | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 consent | det |
| 13 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 marry | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 King | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 consent | nmod |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 King | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 first | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 first | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 first | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 first | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 first | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 first | det |
| 25 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 declared | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 whom | case |
| 27 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 first | obl |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 invitation | det |
| 29 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 wedding | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 wedding | det |
| 32 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 invitation | nmod |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 sent | aux:pass |
| 34 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 whom | acl:relcl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 told | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 told | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 told | cop |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 told | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 not | punct |
| 40 | however | however | ADV | _ | 42 told | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 however | punct |
| 42 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 declared | conj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 name | det |
| 44 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 told | obj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 bride | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 bride | det |
| 47 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 name | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past · perfect | Queen | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not marry | could | Queen | the Prince | without the consent of the King Queen's father | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | past | King | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | send | past · passive | a invitation to the wedding | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not is | past | King | however, tell property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | consent | the King Queen's father | nom consent «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | name | the bride | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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