The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "'what, Is Not the Key of My Closet Among the Rest?'" 36, sentence 3
THE PRINCE ENQUIRES OF THE AGED COUNTRYMAN _facing_ 54
Who acts: PRINCE · What happens: enquire, face · To what, where: 54
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "'what, Is Not the Key of My Closet Among the Rest?'" 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (PRINCE), 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 PRINCE | det |
| 2 | PRINCE | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ENQUIRES | nsubj |
| 3 | ENQUIRES | enquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 7 COUNTRYMAN | case |
| 5 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 COUNTRYMAN | det |
| 6 | AGED | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 COUNTRYMAN | amod |
| 7 | COUNTRYMAN | COUNTRYMAN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ENQUIRES | obl |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 facing | punct |
| 9 | facing | face | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ENQUIRES | advcl |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 54 | punct |
| 11 | 54 | 54 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 facing | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enquire speech: other | present | the PRINCE | of the AGED COUNTRYMAN | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of countryman=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | face | gerund | the PRINCE not said here | 54 | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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