The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "away She Drove, Scarce Able to Contain Herself For Joy" 78, sentence 4
"RIQUET WITH THE TUFT APPEARED TO HER THE FINEST PRINCE UPON EARTH" _facing_ 104
Who acts: RIQUET · What happens: appear, face · To what, where: FINEST PRINCE, CINDERILLA, 104
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "away She Drove, Scarce Able to Contain Herself For Joy" 78. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (RIQUET), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 RIQUET | punct |
| 2 | RIQUET | riquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 APPEARED | nsubj |
| 3 | WITH | with | ADP | _ | 5 TUFT | case |
| 4 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 TUFT | det |
| 5 | TUFT | tuft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 RIQUET | nmod |
| 6 | APPEARED | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | TO | to | ADP | _ | 8 HER | case |
| 8 | HER | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 APPEARED | obl |
| 9 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 PRINCE | det |
| 10 | FINEST | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 PRINCE | amod |
| 11 | PRINCE | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 APPEARED | obj |
| 12 | UPON | upon | ADP | _ | 13 EARTH | case |
| 13 | EARTH | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 PRINCE | nmod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 EARTH | punct |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 facing | punct |
| 16 | facing | face | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 APPEARED | advcl |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 104 | punct |
| 18 | 104 | 104 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 facing | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear in a quote | past | RIQUET with the TUFT | the FINEST PRINCE | CINDERILLA | upon EARTH | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prince=Theme | ||
| 2 | face | gerund | RIQUET with the TUFT not said here | 104 | 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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