The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 107
In order that the secret might be well kept, Perrault abandoned his usual publisher, Coignard, and went to Barbin.
Who acts: order, Perrault · What happens: keep, abandon, go · To what, where: secret, usual publisher, order, Barbin
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 (order, Perrault), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 order | case |
| 2 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 abandoned | obl |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 kept | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 secret | det |
| 5 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 kept | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 kept | aux:pass |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 kept | advmod |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 order | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 order | punct |
| 11 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 abandoned | nsubj |
| 12 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 publisher | nmod:poss |
| 14 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 publisher | amod |
| 15 | publisher | publisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 abandoned | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Coignard | punct |
| 17 | Coignard | Coignard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 publisher | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 abandoned | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Barbin | case |
| 22 | Barbin | Barbin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 abandoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | might · passive | order not said here | the secret | well property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | abandon | past | Perrault | man's usual publisher | order | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme publisher=Source | |||
| 3 | go | past | Perrault not said here | Barbin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to barbin=Initial_Location |
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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