The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 129
Yet it won a wide popularity, as is shown by the fact that there was a seventh edition published in 1795, for J. Rivington, a bookseller, of Pearl Street, New York.
Who acts: copy, J. · What happens: win, show, be, publish · To what, where: wide popularity, seventh edition, 1795
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 (copy, J.), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 3 won | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 won | nsubj |
| 3 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 popularity | det |
| 5 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 popularity | amod |
| 6 | popularity | popularity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 won | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shown | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 shown | mark |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 shown | aux:pass |
| 10 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 won | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 fact | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fact | det |
| 13 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 edition | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 was | mark |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 edition | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 edition | det |
| 18 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 edition | amod |
| 19 | edition | edition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shown | obl |
| 20 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 edition | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 1795 | case |
| 22 | 1795 | 1795 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 published | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 J. | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 J. | case |
| 25 | J. | J. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 shown | obl:agent |
| 26 | Rivington | Rivington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 J. | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bookseller | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bookseller | det |
| 29 | bookseller | bookseller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 J. | appos |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Street | punct |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Street | case |
| 32 | Pearl | Pearl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Street | compound |
| 33 | Street | Street | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 shown | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 York | punct |
| 35 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 York | flat |
| 36 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Street | nmod:unmarked |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | copy | a wide popularity | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent popularity=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | show | present · passive | J. | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | a seventh edition | by the fact | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | publish | participle | a seventh edition not said here | 1795 | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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