The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 55
For the State needed Princes for its peace and prosperity, and though, in truth, the Princess, his daughter, had all the qualities requisite for making a great Queen, yet of necessity she must choose an alien for her husband, and then the stranger would take her away with him.
Who acts: qualities requisite, Queen, stranger, beauty · What happens: need, have, make, choose, take away, pacify · To what, where: Princes, qualities requisite, truth, great Queen, alien, Queen
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 (qualities requisite, Queen, stranger, beauty), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 State | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 State | det |
| 3 | State | State | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 needed | obl |
| 4 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 needed | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 peace | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 peace | nmod:poss |
| 8 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 prosperity | cc |
| 10 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 peace | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 had | cc |
| 13 | though | though | ADV | _ | 24 had | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 though | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 truth | case |
| 16 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 truth | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Princess | det |
| 19 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 truth | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 daughter | punct |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Princess | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 truth | punct |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 needed | parataxis |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 requisite | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 requisite | det |
| 27 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 requisite | compound |
| 28 | requisite | requisite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obj |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 making | mark |
| 30 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 requisite | acl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 Queen | det |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Queen | amod |
| 33 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 making | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 choose | punct |
| 35 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 40 choose | cc |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 necessity | case |
| 37 | necessity | necessity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 choose | obl |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 choose | nsubj |
| 39 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 choose | aux |
| 40 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 had | conj |
| 41 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 alien | det |
| 42 | alien | alien | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 choose | obj |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 husband | case |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 husband | nmod:poss |
| 45 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 alien | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 take | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 take | cc |
| 48 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 52 take | advmod |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 stranger | det |
| 50 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 take | nsubj |
| 51 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 take | aux |
| 52 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 choose | conj |
| 53 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 take | obj |
| 54 | away | away | ADV | _ | 52 take | advmod |
| 55 | with | with | ADP | _ | 56 him | case |
| 56 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 take | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 needed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | past | Princes | for the State; for beauty's peace and prosperity | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot prince=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | all qualities requisite | truth | though property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent requisite=Patient | |||
| 3 | make | gerund | all qualities requisite not said here | a great Queen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset queen=Product | ||||
| 4 | choose | must | Queen | a alien | of necessity; for Queen's husband | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent alien=Theme for husband=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | take away | would | the stranger | Queen | then | with King; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||
| 6 | pacify | beauty | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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