The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 119

He deferred, however, to universal usage when he entitled his volume "Les Contes en prose de Charles Perrault."

Who acts: boy · What happens: defer, entitle · To what, where: volume

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 deferred	nsubj
2	deferred	defer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	2 deferred	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 usage	punct
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 usage	case
7	universal	universal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 usage	amod
8	usage	usage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 deferred	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 entitled	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 entitled	nsubj
11	entitled	entitle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 deferred	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 volume	nmod:poss
13	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 entitled	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 prose	punct
15	Les	Les	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 prose	compound
16	Contes	Contes	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Les	flat
17	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 prose	compound
18	prose	prose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 entitled	parataxis
19	de	de	ADP	_	20 Charles	case
20	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 prose	nmod
21	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Charles	flat
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 prose	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 prose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	defer	past	boy					to universal usage; however property	vn acquiesce-95.1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to usage=Pivot
2	entitle	past	boy	boy's volume					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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