The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 123
Every few years a new and sumptuous edition appears in France.
Who acts: new edition · What happens: appear · To what, where: France
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 (new edition), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 years | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 appears | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 edition | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 edition | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sumptuous | cc |
| 7 | sumptuous | sumptuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 new | conj |
| 8 | edition | edition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appears | nsubj |
| 9 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 France | case |
| 11 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 appears | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | a new edition | France | year | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in france=Location |
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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