The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 133

The text has been thoroughly revised and corrected by Mr J. E. Mansion, who has purged it of many errors without detracting from its old-fashioned quality.

Who acts: E. Mansion · What happens: revise, correct, purge, detract · To what, where: text, fashioned quality

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 (E. Mansion), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 text	det
2	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 revised	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 revised	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 revised	aux:pass
5	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	6 revised	advmod
6	revised	revise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 corrected	cc
8	corrected	correct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 revised	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 Mr	case
10	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 corrected	obl
11	J.	J.	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Mr	flat
12	E.	E.	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Mansion	compound
13	Mansion	mansion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Mr	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 purged	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 purged	nsubj
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 purged	aux
17	purged	purge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 Mansion	acl:relcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 purged	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 errors	case
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 errors	amod
21	errors	error	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 purged	obl
22	without	without	SCONJ	_	23 detracting	mark
23	detracting	detract	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 purged	advcl
24	from	from	ADP	_	29 quality	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 quality	nmod:poss
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fashioned	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 old	punct
28	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 quality	amod
29	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 detracting	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 revised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	revise	present · perfect · passive		the text		thoroughly property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	correct speech: disagree	participle				by Mr	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	purge	present · perfect	E. Mansion	text		of many errors	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer it=Source of error=Theme
4	detract	gerund	E. Mansion not said here		text's fashioned quality		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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