The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 11
_Perrault was born in Paris in 1628, the fifth son of Pierre Perrault, a prosperous parliamentary lawyer; and, at the age of nine, was sent to a day-school--the Collège de Beauvais.
What happens: bear, send · To what, where: _, Paris, Collège Beauvais, age
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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 born | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 born | aux:pass |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Paris | case |
| 6 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 born | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1628 | case |
| 8 | 1628 | 1628 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 born | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 1628 | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 son | det |
| 11 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 son | amod |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 1628 | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Pierre | case |
| 14 | Pierre | Pierre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod |
| 15 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Pierre | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lawyer | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lawyer | det |
| 18 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lawyer | amod |
| 19 | parliamentary | parliamentary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lawyer | amod |
| 20 | lawyer | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 son | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 sent | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sent | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 and | punct |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 age | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 age | det |
| 26 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sent | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 nine | case |
| 28 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 age | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 age | punct |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 sent | aux:pass |
| 31 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 born | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 school | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 school | det |
| 34 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 school | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 day | punct |
| 36 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sent | obl |
| 37 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 41 Beauvais | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Beauvais | det |
| 39 | Collège | Collège | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Beauvais | compound |
| 40 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Collège | flat |
| 41 | Beauvais | Beauvais | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 sent | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | _ | Paris | in 1628 the fifth son of Pierre and a prosperous parliamentary lawyer | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | send | past · passive | the Collège Beauvais | at the age of nine | to a day school | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to school=Destination |
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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