The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 112
The first appeared, anonymously it is true, in 1691; but, when it came to be reprinted with "Les Souhaits Ridicules" and "Peau d'Asne" in 1695, they were entrusted to the firm of Coignard and described as being by "Mr Perrault, de l'Academie Françoise."
Who acts: first, authorship · What happens: appear, be, come, reprint, entrust, describe · To what, where: 1691, Ridicules, firm
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 (first, authorship), 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 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 true | punct |
| 5 | anonymously | anonymously | ADV | _ | 8 true | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 true | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 true | cop |
| 8 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 appeared | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 1691 | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1691 | case |
| 11 | 1691 | 1691 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 true | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 came | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 appeared | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 reprinted | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 reprinted | aux:pass |
| 20 | reprinted | reprint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 came | advcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 Ridicules | case |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Ridicules | punct |
| 23 | Les | Les | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Ridicules | compound |
| 24 | Souhaits | Souhaits | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Ridicules | compound |
| 25 | Ridicules | Ridicules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 reprinted | obl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Ridicules | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 d'Asne | cc |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 d'Asne | punct |
| 29 | Peau | Peau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 d'Asne | compound |
| 30 | d'Asne | d'asne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Ridicules | conj |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 d'Asne | punct |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 1695 | case |
| 33 | 1695 | 1695 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 d'Asne | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 entrusted | punct |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 entrusted | nsubj |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 entrusted | aux:pass |
| 37 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 came | parataxis |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 firm | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 firm | det |
| 40 | firm | firm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 entrusted | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Coignard | case |
| 42 | Coignard | Coignard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 firm | nmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 described | cc |
| 44 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 entrusted | conj |
| 45 | as | as | ADP | _ | 49 Mr | case |
| 46 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 49 Mr | cop |
| 47 | by | by | ADP | _ | 49 Mr | case |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 Mr | punct |
| 49 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 described | obl |
| 50 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Mr | flat |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 Françoise | punct |
| 52 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 54 Françoise | compound |
| 53 | l'Academie | l'academie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 Françoise | compound |
| 54 | Françoise | françoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 Mr | conj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
| 56 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the first | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | authorship | 1691 | anonymously, true property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come | past | authorship | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | reprint | to-infinitive · passive | authorship not said here | with Les Souhaits Ridicules and Peau d'Asne in 1695 | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | entrust | past · passive | Ridicules | the firm of Coignard | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to firm=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | describe | participle | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | is in a quote | gerund | as Mr and de l'Academie Françoise | 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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