The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 113
La Fontaine had made a fashion of this sort of exercise.
What happens: make, sort · To what, where: La, exercise
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.
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 | La | La | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Fontaine | Fontaine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 La | flat |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fashion | det |
| 6 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sort | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 sort | det |
| 9 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fashion | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 exercise | case |
| 11 | exercise | exercise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sort | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | La | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary fashion=Product | |||||
| 2 | sort | exercise | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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