The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 108
The stories had previously appeared from time to time, anonymously, in Moetjens' little magazine the "Recueil," which was published from The Hague. "
What happens: appear, publish · To what, where: stories, little magazine, Recueil, Hague
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stories | det |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 appeared | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appeared | aux |
| 4 | previously | previously | ADV | _ | 5 appeared | advmod |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 time | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 anonymously | punct |
| 11 | anonymously | anonymously | ADV | _ | 5 appeared | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 magazine | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 magazine | case |
| 14 | Moetjens | Moetjens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 magazine | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 14 Moetjens | case |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 magazine | amod |
| 17 | magazine | magazine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Recueil | det |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Recueil | punct |
| 20 | Recueil | Recueil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 magazine | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 published | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 published | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 published | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 published | aux:pass |
| 25 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 Recueil | acl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 Hague | case |
| 27 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Hague | det |
| 28 | Hague | Hague | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 published | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 Recueil | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 magazine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past · perfect · passive | the stories | Moetjens's little magazine | time | anonymously, previously property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||
| 2 | publish | past · passive | the Recueil | the Hague | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from hague=Material |
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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