The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 199
He had happily recovered his reason, and had married a Queen who was a widow and very beautiful, but by whom he had no child.
Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: recover, marry, be, have · To what, where: reason, Queen, widow, child
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 recovered | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 recovered | aux |
| 3 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 4 recovered | advmod |
| 4 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 reason | nmod:poss |
| 6 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recovered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 married | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 married | cc |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 married | aux |
| 10 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 recovered | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Queen | det |
| 12 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 married | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 widow | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 widow | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 widow | det |
| 16 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Queen | appos |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 beautiful | cc |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 beautiful | advmod |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 widow | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 had | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 had | cc |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 whom | case |
| 23 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 had | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 recovered | conj |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 child | det |
| 27 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 recovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past · perfect | King | King's reason | happily property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | |||
| 2 | marry | past · perfect | King not said here | a Queen | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a Queen | a widow | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | a Queen not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | have | past | King | no child | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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