The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 70
The King, overjoyed and hopeful, called together the most skilful workmen, and demanded this robe of them; otherwise they should be hanged.
Who acts: King · What happens: overjoy, call together, demand, hange · To what, where: skilful workmen, robe, Fairies
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 | 4 overjoyed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 overjoyed | punct |
| 4 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hopeful | cc |
| 6 | hopeful | hopeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 overjoyed | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 overjoyed | conj |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 called | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 workmen | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 skilful | advmod |
| 12 | skilful | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 workmen | amod |
| 13 | workmen | workman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 called | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 demanded | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 demanded | cc |
| 16 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overjoyed | conj |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 robe | det |
| 18 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 demanded | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 robe | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 hanged | punct |
| 22 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 26 hanged | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hanged | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 hanged | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 hanged | aux:pass |
| 26 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 overjoyed | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | participle | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call together speech: assert | participle | the King not said here | the skilful workmen | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | demand speech: request | past | the King not said here | this robe of workmen | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme robe=Precondition | ||||
| 4 | hange | should · passive | Fairies = fairy | otherwise property | tree rules |
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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