The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 203
In spite of the protests of the noble-hearted young man, the Prince's father caused his son to be crowned the same day, and kissing his hand, placed him on the throne.
Who acts: father · What happens: cause, crown, kiss, place, spite, protest · To what, where: son, spite, hand, father, throne, protests
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 (father), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 spite | case |
| 2 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caused | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 protests | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 protests | det |
| 5 | protests | protest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spite | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 8 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hearted | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 noble | punct |
| 10 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 protests | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 spite | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Prince | det |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Prince | case |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caused | nsubj |
| 18 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caused | iobj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 crowned | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 crowned | aux:pass |
| 23 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 caused | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 day | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 day | amod |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 crowned | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 placed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 placed | cc |
| 29 | kissing | kiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 placed | advcl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 hand | nmod:poss |
| 31 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 kissing | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 kissing | punct |
| 33 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 caused | conj |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 placed | obj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 throne | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 throne | det |
| 37 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 placed | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | the Prince's father | father's son | spite of the protests of the hearted young man | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition son=Patient | |||
| 2 | crown | to-infinitive · passive | the Prince's father not said here | day | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | kiss | gerund | father's hand | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | place | past | the Prince's father not said here | father | the throne | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on throne=Destination | |||
| 5 | spite | the protests of the hearted young man | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | protest | the hearted young man | nom protest «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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