The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 126

_The stories soon crossed the Channel; and a translation "by Mr Samber, printed for J. Pote" was advertised in the "Monthly Chronicle" of 1729. "

Who acts: stories, Mr · What happens: cross, print, advertise, translate · To what, where: Channel, Mr, Monthly Chronicle

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 (stories, Mr), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 crossed	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stories	det
3	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 crossed	nsubj
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 crossed	advmod
5	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Channel	det
7	Channel	Channel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 crossed	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 translation	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 translation	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 translation	det
11	translation	translation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crossed	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 translation	punct
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 Mr	case
14	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 translation	nmod
15	Samber	Samber	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Mr	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 printed	punct
17	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 advertised	advcl
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 Pote	case
19	J.	J.	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Pote	compound
20	Pote	Pote	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 advertised	obl
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Pote	punct
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 advertised	aux:pass
23	advertised	advertise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 Mr	acl:relcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 Chronicle	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Chronicle	det
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Chronicle	punct
27	Monthly	Monthly	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Chronicle	compound
28	Chronicle	Chronicle	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 advertised	obl
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Chronicle	punct
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 1729	case
31	1729	1729	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 Chronicle	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 crossed	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cross	past	the stories	the Channel		a translation by Mr obl; soon property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent channel=Patient
2	print in a quote	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	advertise	past · passive		Mr not said here	the Monthly Chronicle of 1729	for J. Pote	vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»
4	translate		Mr				nom translation «communication intransitive»: by=agent

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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