The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 57
The King, impressed by these considerations, promised that he would think over the matter.
Who acts: King · What happens: impress, promise, think · To what, where: King, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 impressed | punct |
| 4 | impressed | impress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 King | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 considerations | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 considerations | det |
| 7 | considerations | consideration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 impressed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 9 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 think | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 think | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 think | aux |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 promised | ccomp |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 matter | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 matter | det |
| 16 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 think | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | impress | participle | the King not said here | by this considerations | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | the King | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | would | King | the matter | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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