The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 131
_No English translation of Perrault's fairy tales has attained unquestioned literary pre-eminence.
Who acts: fairy tales, Perrault · What happens: attain, translate, tell · To what, where: English translation · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fairy tales, Perrault), 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 | _ | 11 attained | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 translation | det |
| 3 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 translation | amod |
| 4 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attained | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tales | case |
| 6 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 tales | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Perrault | case |
| 8 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tales | compound |
| 9 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 translation | nmod |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 attained | aux |
| 11 | attained | attain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | unquestioned | unquestioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pre-eminence | amod |
| 13 | literary | literary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pre-eminence | amod |
| 14 | pre-eminence | pre-eminence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attained | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 attained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attain | present · perfect · passive | no English translation of Perrault's fairy tales | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary pre-eminence=Theme | |||||
| 2 | translate | Perrault's fairy tales | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 3 | tell | Perrault | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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