The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 127
Mr Samber" was presumably one Robert Samber of New Inn, who translated other tales from the French, for Edmond Curl the bookseller, about this time.
Who acts: Mr, Robert Samber · What happens: be, translate · To what, where: one, other tales, French
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 (Mr, Robert Samber), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nsubj |
| 2 | Samber | Samber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mr | flat |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mr | punct |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | cop |
| 5 | presumably | presumably | ADV | _ | 6 one | advmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | Robert | Robert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Samber | compound |
| 8 | Samber | Samber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 translated | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Inn | case |
| 10 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Inn | compound |
| 11 | Inn | Inn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Samber | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 translated | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 translated | nsubj |
| 14 | translated | translate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | acl:relcl |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tales | amod |
| 16 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 translated | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 French | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 French | det |
| 19 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 tales | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Curl | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 Curl | case |
| 22 | Edmond | Edmond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Curl | compound |
| 23 | Curl | Curl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 translated | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bookseller | det |
| 25 | bookseller | bookseller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Curl | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 time | punct |
| 27 | about | about | ADP | _ | 29 time | case |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 time | det |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Curl | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Mr | one | presumably property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | translate in a quote | past | Robert Samber of New Inn | other tales | the French | for Edmond Curl and this time | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent tale=Patient from french=Initial_State |
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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