The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 115
_It would not be fair to assume that P. Darmancour had no connection whatever with the composition of the stories which bore his name.
Who acts: It, P., stories, La · What happens: not be, assume, have, bear, name · To what, where: connection, name
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 (It, P., stories, La), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 fair | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fair | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 fair | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 fair | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fair | cop |
| 6 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 assume | mark |
| 8 | assume | assume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fair | csubj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 10 | P. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 11 | Darmancour | Darmancour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 P. | flat |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 assume | ccomp |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 connection | det |
| 14 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 connection | appos |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 composition | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 composition | det |
| 18 | composition | composition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 whatever | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 stories | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stories | det |
| 21 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 composition | nmod |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 bore | nsubj |
| 23 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stories | acl:relcl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 name | nmod:poss |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bore | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | would | It | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | assume | to-infinitive | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | have | past | P. | no connection | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent connection=Patient | ||||
| 4 | bear | past | the stories | La's name | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | ||||
| 5 | name | La | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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