The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 20

"It is true," he said to himself, "that there is none so great as a King, but what of the Queen that must share his dignity?

Who acts: thought, mischance, none, that · What happens: be, say, share · To what, where: mischance, dignity · 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 (thought, mischance, none, that), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 true	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 true	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 great	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 great	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 is	mark
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 is	expl
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 great	cop
16	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	18 great	nsubj
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 great	advmod
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	conj
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 King	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 King	det
21	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 great	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 what	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 what	cc
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 share	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 Queen	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Queen	det
27	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 what	nmod
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 share	nsubj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 share	aux
30	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 dignity	nmod:poss
32	dignity	dignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 share	obj
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	thought			true property	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	mischance		mischance		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	none			as a King; great property	tree rules
4	share in a quote	must	that	mischance's dignity			tree rules

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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