The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 98
The King, who had caused a sumptuous banquet to be prepared, was inconsolable.
Who acts: King · What happens: cause, be · To what, where: sumptuous banquet
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 | 15 inconsolable | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 caused | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 caused | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caused | aux |
| 6 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 King | acl:relcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 banquet | det |
| 8 | sumptuous | sumptuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 banquet | amod |
| 9 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caused | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 prepared | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 prepared | cop |
| 12 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 caused | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 inconsolable | cop |
| 15 | inconsolable | inconsolable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 inconsolable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past · perfect | the King | a sumptuous banquet | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition banquet=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | the King not said here | prepared property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the King | inconsolable 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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