The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 39
Now, it was not for a whim but for a good reason that the King had given this donkey a particular and distinguished place.
Who acts: donkey, King · What happens: not be, give · To what, where: particular place, donkey
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 (donkey, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 whim | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 whim | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 whim | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 whim | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 whim | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 whim | det |
| 8 | whim | whim | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 reason | cc |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 reason | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 reason | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 reason | amod |
| 13 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whim | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 given | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 given | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 given | aux |
| 18 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 reason | advcl |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 donkey | det |
| 20 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 given | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 place | det |
| 22 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 place | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 distinguished | cc |
| 24 | distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 particular | conj |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 given | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 whim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | donkey | now | for a whim but a good reason | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | past · perfect | the King | a particular place | this donkey | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Recipient place=Theme |
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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