The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 51
After a time the magnates of the State assembled and came to the King, urging him to take another wife.
Who acts: magnates · What happens: assemble, come, urge, take · To what, where: King, wife
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 (magnates), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 assembled | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 magnates | det |
| 5 | magnates | magnate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 assembled | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 State | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 State | det |
| 8 | State | State | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 magnates | nmod |
| 9 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 assembled | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 King | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 urging | punct |
| 16 | urging | urge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 came | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 urging | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 take | mark |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 urging | advcl |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 wife | det |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past | the magnates of the State | time | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the magnates of the State not said here | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | urge | gerund | the magnates of the State not said here | King | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | the magnates of the State not said here | another wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination |
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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