The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 34

Once upon a time there was a King, so great, so beloved by his people, and so respected by all his neighbours and allies that one might almost say he was the happiest monarch alive.

Who acts: one, King · What happens: be, belov, respect, say · To what, where: allies, happiest monarch · 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 (one, 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 was	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 great	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 great	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 great	advmod
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 beloved	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 beloved	advmod
14	beloved	belov	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 great	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 people	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 people	nmod:poss
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 beloved	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 respected	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 respected	cc
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 respected	advmod
21	respected	respect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 beloved	conj
22	by	by	ADP	_	25 neighbours	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 neighbours	det:predet
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 neighbours	nmod:poss
25	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 respected	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 allies	cc
27	allies	ally	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 neighbours	conj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 say	obj
29	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 say	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 say	aux
31	almost	almost	ADV	_	32 say	advmod
32	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 allies	acl:relcl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 monarch	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 monarch	cop
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 monarch	det
36	happiest	happy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 monarch	amod
37	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 say	ccomp
38	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 monarch	amod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 great	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			great property	tree rules
2	belov	participle			by King's people	tree rules
3	respect	participle			by King's neighbours and allies	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	might	one	allies	almost property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
5	is a	past	King	the happiest monarch		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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