The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 117

The boy, probably, gathered the stories from his nurse and brought them to his father, who touched them up, and toned them down, and wrote them out.

Who acts: boy, father · What happens: gather, bring, touch up, tone down, write out · To what, where: stories, nurse, father

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 (boy, father), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gathered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 boy	punct
4	probably	probably	ADV	_	6 gathered	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gathered	punct
6	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stories	det
8	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gathered	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 nurse	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 nurse	nmod:poss
11	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gathered	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 brought	cc
13	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gathered	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 brought	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 father	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 touched	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 touched	nsubj
20	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 father	acl:relcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 touched	obj
22	up	up	ADP	_	20 touched	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 toned	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 toned	cc
25	toned	tone	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gathered	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 toned	obj
27	down	down	ADP	_	25 toned	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wrote	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 wrote	cc
30	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gathered	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wrote	obj
32	out	out	ADP	_	30 wrote	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	gather	past	the boy	the stories		boy's nurse	probably property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent story=Theme from nurse=Source
2	bring	past	the boy not said here	stories = story	boy's father			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to father=Destination
3	touch up	past	boy's father	stories = story				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme
4	tone down	past	the boy not said here	stories = story				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	write out	past	the boy not said here	stories = story				vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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