The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 122

Imitators sprung up at once by the dozen, and still persist; but none of them has ever rivalled, much less surpassed, the inimitable originals.

Who acts: Imitators · What happens: spring up, persist, rivall, surpass · To what, where: Imitators, none, inimitable originals

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 (Imitators), 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	Imitators	imitator	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 persist	nsubj
2	sprung	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Imitators	acl
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 sprung	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 sprung	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 dozen	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dozen	det
8	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sprung	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 persist	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 persist	cc
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 persist	advmod
12	persist	persist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 rivalled	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 rivalled	cc
15	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	20 rivalled	nsubj:pass
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 none	nmod
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 rivalled	aux
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 rivalled	advmod
20	rivalled	rivall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 persist	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 surpassed	punct
22	much	much	ADV	_	23 less	advmod
23	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 surpassed	advmod
24	surpassed	surpass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 rivalled	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 originals	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 originals	det
27	inimitable	inimitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 originals	amod
28	originals	original	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 surpassed	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 persist	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spring up	participle		Imitators not said here		by the dozen	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	persist	present	Imitators		still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rivall	present · perfect · passive		none	ever		tree rules
4	surpass	participle		the inimitable originals		less property	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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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