The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 109
La Belle au Bois Dormant" ("Sleeping Beauty") was the first: and in rapid succession followed "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" ("Red Riding-Hood"), "Le Maistre Chat, ou le Chat Botté" ("Puss in Boots"), "Les Fées" ("The Fairy"), "Cendrillon, ou la Petite Pantoufle de Verre" ("Cinderella"), "Riquet à la Houppe" ("Riquet of the Tuft"), and "Le Petit Poucet" ("Tom Thumb").
Who acts: La au, Red · What happens: sleep, be, follow, hood · To what, where: Beauty, rapid succession
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 (La au, Red), 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 | La | La | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 au | compound |
| 2 | Belle | Belle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 La | flat |
| 3 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 first | nsubj |
| 4 | Bois | Bois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Dormant | compound |
| 5 | Dormant | Dormant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 au | appos |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Dormant | punct |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sleeping | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sleeping | punct |
| 9 | Sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 au | acl |
| 10 | Beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Sleeping | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sleeping | punct |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sleeping | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 first | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 first | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 succession | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 succession | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 succession | case |
| 19 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 succession | amod |
| 20 | succession | succession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 first | obl |
| 21 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 succession | acl |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Rouge | punct |
| 23 | Le | Le | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Petit | compound |
| 24 | Petit | Petit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Rouge | compound |
| 25 | Chaperon | Chaperon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Rouge | compound |
| 26 | Rouge | Rouge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 followed | obl:agent |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Rouge | punct |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 Hood | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Hood | punct |
| 30 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Hood | nsubj |
| 31 | Riding | Riding | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Hood | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 Hood | punct |
| 33 | Hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Rouge | appos |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Hood | punct |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 Hood | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Chat | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 Chat | punct |
| 38 | Le | Le | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Chat | compound |
| 39 | Maistre | Maistre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Chat | compound |
| 40 | Chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 succession | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 le | punct |
| 42 | ou | ou | X | Foreign=Yes | 43 le | compound |
| 43 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 succession | conj |
| 44 | Chat | Chat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Botté | compound |
| 45 | Botté | Botté | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 le | appos |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 Botté | punct |
| 47 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 49 Puss | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 Puss | punct |
| 49 | Puss | Puss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 le | appos |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 Boots | case |
| 51 | Boots | Boots | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Puss | nmod |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 Puss | punct |
| 53 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 49 Puss | punct |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 Fées | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 57 Fées | punct |
| 56 | Les | Les | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 Fées | compound |
| 57 | Fées | Fée | PROPN | Number=Plur | 49 Puss | conj |
| 58 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 Puss | punct |
| 59 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 62 Fairy | punct |
| 60 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 62 Fairy | punct |
| 61 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 Fairy | det |
| 62 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 Puss | appos |
| 63 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 62 Fairy | punct |
| 64 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 62 Fairy | punct |
| 65 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 67 Cendrillon | punct |
| 66 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 67 Cendrillon | punct |
| 67 | Cendrillon | Cendrillon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Puss | conj |
| 68 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 69 ou | punct |
| 69 | ou | ou | X | Foreign=Yes | 49 Puss | dep |
| 70 | la | la | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 74 Verre | det |
| 71 | Petite | Petite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 72 Pantoufle | compound |
| 72 | Pantoufle | Pantoufle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 74 Verre | compound |
| 73 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 72 Pantoufle | flat |
| 74 | Verre | Verre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Puss | conj |
| 75 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 74 Verre | punct |
| 76 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 78 Cinderella | punct |
| 77 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 78 Cinderella | punct |
| 78 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Puss | appos |
| 79 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 78 Cinderella | punct |
| 80 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 78 Cinderella | punct |
| 81 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 83 Riquet | punct |
| 82 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 83 Riquet | punct |
| 83 | Riquet | riquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 Puss | appos |
| 84 | à | à | ADP | _ | 86 Houppe | case |
| 85 | la | la | PUNCT | _ | 86 Houppe | punct |
| 86 | Houppe | Houppe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 83 Riquet | nmod |
| 87 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 86 Houppe | punct |
| 88 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 90 Riquet | punct |
| 89 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 90 Riquet | punct |
| 90 | Riquet | Riquet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 86 Houppe | appos |
| 91 | of | of | ADP | _ | 93 Tuft | case |
| 92 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 93 Tuft | det |
| 93 | Tuft | tuft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 90 Riquet | nmod |
| 94 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 90 Riquet | punct |
| 95 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 90 Riquet | punct |
| 96 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 101 Poucet | punct |
| 97 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 101 Poucet | cc |
| 98 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 99 Le | punct |
| 99 | Le | Le | PROPN | Number=Sing | 101 Poucet | compound |
| 100 | Petit | Petit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 101 Poucet | compound |
| 101 | Poucet | Poucet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Puss | appos |
| 102 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 101 Poucet | punct |
| 103 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 106 Thumb | punct |
| 104 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 106 Thumb | punct |
| 105 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 106 Thumb | compound |
| 106 | Thumb | Thumb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Puss | appos |
| 107 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 106 Thumb | punct |
| 108 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 49 Puss | punct |
| 109 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | gerund | La au not said here | Beauty | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | La au | rapid succession and Le Maistre Chat and ou le | first property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | follow in a quote | participle | rapid succession and Le Maistre Chat and ou le not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hood | Red | tree rules |
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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