The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 12

His father helped him with his lessons at home, as he himself, later on, was accustomed to help his own children.

Who acts: father · What happens: help, accustom · To what, where: Paris, home, own children

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 (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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helped	nsubj
3	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 helped	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 lessons	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lessons	nmod:poss
7	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 helped	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 home	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 on	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 on	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 on	nsubj
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	12 he	nmod:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 on	punct
15	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 on	advmod
16	on	on	ADV	_	3 helped	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 accustomed	punct
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 accustomed	aux:pass
19	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 helped	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 help	mark
21	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 accustomed	advcl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 children	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 children	amod
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 help	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 helped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	help	past	Paris's father	Paris	home	with Paris's lessons	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary with lesson=Theme
2	accustom	past · passive	Paris's father not said here				tree rules
3	help	to-infinitive	Paris's father not said here	Paris's own children			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary

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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