The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 56
If, on the other hand, he remained in her country and shared the throne with her, their children would not be considered to be of pure native stock, and so, there being no Prince of his name, neighbouring peoples would stir up wars, and the kingdom would be ruined.
Who acts: King, Prince · What happens: remain, share, not consider, be, neighbour, stir up · To what, where: country, throne, children, Prince, wars, kingdom
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 (King, Prince), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 hand | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hand | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hand | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hand | amod |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remained | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hand | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 remained | nsubj |
| 9 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 country | nmod:poss |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remained | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shared | cc |
| 14 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 remained | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 throne | det |
| 16 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shared | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 shared | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 considered | punct |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 children | nmod:poss |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 considered | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 considered | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 considered | aux:pass |
| 25 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 shared | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 stock | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 stock | cop |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 stock | case |
| 29 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 stock | amod |
| 30 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 stock | amod |
| 31 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 considered | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 stir | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 stir | cc |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 47 stir | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Prince | punct |
| 36 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 39 Prince | expl |
| 37 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 Prince | cop |
| 38 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 39 Prince | det |
| 39 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 stir | nsubj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 name | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 name | nmod:poss |
| 42 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Prince | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Prince | punct |
| 44 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 45 peoples | amod |
| 45 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 stir | nsubj |
| 46 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 stir | aux |
| 47 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 remained | conj |
| 48 | up | up | ADP | _ | 47 stir | compound:prt |
| 49 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 stir | obj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 ruined | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 ruined | cc |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 kingdom | det |
| 53 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 ruined | nsubj:pass |
| 54 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 56 ruined | aux |
| 55 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 56 ruined | aux:pass |
| 56 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 remained | conj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | King | Queen's country | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location | ||||
| 2 | share | past | King not said here | the throne | with Queen | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not consider | would · passive | strangers's children | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | of pure native stock | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is a | gerund | no Prince | there | of King's name | tree rules | |||
| 6 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | stir up | would | no Prince | wars | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition war=Patient | ||||
| 8 | ruin | would · passive | the kingdom | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 9 | name | King | nom name «communication 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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