The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 13

He can never have been a model schoolboy, though he was always first in his class, and he ended his school career prematurely by quarrelling with his master and bidding him a formal farewell.

Who acts: father · What happens: not be, be, end, quarrell, bid · To what, where: model schoolboy, class, school career, father

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 (father), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 schoolboy	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 schoolboy	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 schoolboy	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 schoolboy	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 schoolboy	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 schoolboy	det
7	model	model	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 schoolboy	compound
8	schoolboy	schoolboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 class	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 class	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 class	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 class	cop
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 first	advmod
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 class	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 class	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 class	nmod:poss
17	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 schoolboy	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ended	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ended	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ended	nsubj
21	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 schoolboy	parataxis
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 career	nmod:poss
23	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 career	compound
24	career	career	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ended	obj
25	prematurely	prematurely	ADV	_	27 quarrelling	advmod
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 quarrelling	case
27	quarrelling	quarrell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 ended	advcl
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 master	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 master	nmod:poss
30	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 quarrelling	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bidding	cc
32	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 quarrelling	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bidding	obj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 farewell	det
35	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 farewell	amod
36	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bidding	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 schoolboy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	can · perfect	father	a model schoolboy			tree rules
2	is	past	father		father's class	first property	tree rules
3	end	past	father	father's school career			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector career=Eventuality
4	quarrell	gerund	father not said here			with father's master; prematurely property	tree rules
5	bid	gerund	father not said here	father			tree rules

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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