The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 85
Oh! this time, my child," she said to the Princess, "we will put the King to terrible proof.
Who acts: brilliance, we · What happens: say, put · To what, where: Princess, King · 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 (brilliance, we), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 time | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 child | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 child | nmod:poss |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Princess | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Princess | det |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 put | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 put | punct |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 put | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 put | aux |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 proof | case |
| 23 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 proof | amod |
| 24 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | brilliance | the Princess | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to princess=Recipient | |||
| 2 | put | future | we | the King | to terrible proof | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Goal |
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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