The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 1
"CURIOSITY MADE HIM PUT HIS EYE TO THE KEYHOLE" _facing_ 150
Who acts: CURIOSITY, HIM · What happens: make, put, face · To what, where: HIM, EYE, 150
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (CURIOSITY, HIM), 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 | _ | 3 MADE | punct |
| 2 | CURIOSITY | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 MADE | nsubj |
| 3 | MADE | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | HIM | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 MADE | obj |
| 5 | PUT | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 MADE | xcomp |
| 6 | HIS | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 EYE | nmod:poss |
| 7 | EYE | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 PUT | obj |
| 8 | TO | to | ADP | _ | 10 KEYHOLE | case |
| 9 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 KEYHOLE | det |
| 10 | KEYHOLE | keyhole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 PUT | obl |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 facing | punct |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 facing | punct |
| 13 | facing | face | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 MADE | advcl |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 150 | punct |
| 15 | 150 | 150 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 facing | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | past | CURIOSITY | HIM = he | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put in a quote | infinitive | HIM = he not said here | CURIOSITY's EYE | to the KEYHOLE | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Goal | |||
| 3 | face | gerund | CURIOSITY not said here | 150 | 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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