The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 116
The best of Perrault's critics, Paul de St Victor and Andrew Lang among others, see in the book a marvellous collaboration of crabbed age and youth.
Who acts: crabbed age · What happens: see, crab, collaborate · To what, where: book
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 (crabbed age), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 best | det |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 critics | case |
| 4 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 critics | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Perrault | case |
| 6 | critics | critic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 best | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Paul | punct |
| 8 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 critics | appos |
| 9 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Paul | flat |
| 10 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Victor | compound |
| 11 | Victor | Victor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Paul | list |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Andrew | cc |
| 13 | Andrew | Andrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Paul | conj |
| 14 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Andrew | flat |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 others | case |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Paul | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 best | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 book | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 book | det |
| 21 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 collaboration | det |
| 23 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 collaboration | amod |
| 24 | collaboration | collaboration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 book | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 age | case |
| 26 | crabbed | crab | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 age | amod |
| 27 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 collaboration | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 youth | cc |
| 29 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 age | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 best | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | the book | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | crab | participle | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | collaborate | crabbed age and youth | nom collaboration «act intransitive»: of=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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