The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 37
Magnificence, good taste, and abundance reigned in the palace; there were wise and clever ministers, virtuous and devoted courtiers, faithful and diligent servants.
Who acts: Magnificence · What happens: reign, be · To what, where: abundance, palace, wise ministers
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 (Magnificence), 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 | Magnificence | magnificence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ministers | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 taste | punct |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 taste | amod |
| 4 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Magnificence | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 abundance | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 abundance | cc |
| 7 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Magnificence | conj |
| 8 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 abundance | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reigned | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 were | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 were | expl |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ministers | cop |
| 15 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ministers | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 clever | cc |
| 17 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wise | conj |
| 18 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 courtiers | punct |
| 20 | virtuous | virtuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 courtiers | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 devoted | cc |
| 22 | devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 virtuous | conj |
| 23 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 ministers | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 servants | punct |
| 25 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 servants | amod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 diligent | cc |
| 27 | diligent | diligent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 faithful | conj |
| 28 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 ministers | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 ministers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign | participle | abundance not said here | the palace | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Magnificence and good taste and abundance | wise ministers and virtuous courtiers and faithful servants | 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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