The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 132

So the publishers of the present book have thought it best to use Samber's translation, which has a special interest of its own in being almost contemporary with the original.

Who acts: translation, Samber · What happens: think, use, have, be, translate · To what, where: publishers, translation, special interest · 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 (translation, Samber), 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	So	so	ADV	_	9 thought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 publishers	det
3	publishers	publisher	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thought	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 book	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 book	det
6	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 book	amod
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 publishers	nmod
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	aux
9	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 best	expl
11	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 thought	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 use	mark
13	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 thought	ccomp
14	Samber	Samber	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 translation	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Samber	case
16	translation	translation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 use	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 has	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 has	nsubj
19	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 translation	acl:relcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 interest	det
21	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 interest	amod
22	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 has	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 own	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 own	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 interest	nmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 contemporary	case
27	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 contemporary	cop
28	almost	almost	ADV	_	29 contemporary	advmod
29	contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 interest	nmod
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 original	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 original	det
32	original	original	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 contemporary	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · perfect · passive		the publishers of the present book		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	use	to-infinitive		Samber's translation		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent translation=Patient
3	have	present	Samber's translation	a special interest of translation's own		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Patient
4	is	gerund			with the original; almost, contemporary property	tree rules
5	translate		Samber			nom translation «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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