The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 99

He sent out more than a hundred gendarmes, and more than a thousand musketeers in quest of her; but the Lilac-fairy made her invisible to the cleverest seekers, and thus she escaped their vigilance.

Who acts: King, Lilac fairy, Princess · What happens: send out, make, escape, quest · To what, where: hundred gendarmes, Princess, vigilance

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, Lilac fairy, Princess), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 sent	compound:prt
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	7 hundred	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	4 more	fixed
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hundred	det
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 gendarmes	nummod
8	gendarmes	gendarme	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sent	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 musketeers	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 musketeers	cc
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	14 thousand	advmod
12	than	than	ADP	_	11 more	fixed
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thousand	det
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 musketeers	nummod
15	musketeers	musketeer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gendarmes	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 quest	case
17	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 musketeers	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 quest	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 made	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 made	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fairy	det
23	Lilac	Lilac	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 fairy	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 Lilac	punct
25	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	nsubj
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 made	obj
28	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 made	xcomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 seekers	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 seekers	det
31	cleverest	clever	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 seekers	amod
32	seekers	seeker	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 invisible	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 escaped	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 escaped	cc
35	thus	thus	ADV	_	37 escaped	advmod
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 escaped	nsubj
37	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	conj
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 vigilance	nmod:poss
39	vigilance	vigilance	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 escaped	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	send out	past	King	hundred gendarmes and thousand musketeers in quest of Princess		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gendarme=Theme
2	make	past	the Lilac fairy	Princess	invisible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product
3	escape	past	Princess	Fairies's vigilance	thus property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vigilance=Initial_Location
4	quest		Princess			nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=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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