The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 197

Kings came from all the countries round, some in sedan-chairs, others in beautiful carriages; those who came from the most distant countries rode on elephants and tigers and eagles.

Who acts: Kings, those · What happens: come, ride · To what, where: chairs, countries, distant countries

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 (Kings, those), 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	Kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 countries	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 countries	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 countries	det
6	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl
7	round	round	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 chairs	punct
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 chairs	det
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 sedan	case
11	sedan	sedan	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chairs	obl
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 sedan	punct
13	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 others	punct
15	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 chairs	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 carriages	case
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 carriages	amod
18	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 others	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 rode	punct
20	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 rode	nsubj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 those	acl:relcl
23	from	from	ADP	_	27 countries	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 countries	det
25	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	26 distant	advmod
26	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 countries	amod
27	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 came	obl
28	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 elephants	case
30	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 rode	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 tigers	cc
32	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 elephants	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 eagles	cc
34	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 elephants	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Kings	some chairs and others in beautiful carriages	all countries	round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location
2	come	past			the distant countries		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location
3	ride	past	those			on elephants and tigers and eagles	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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