The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 135
Griselidis" is excluded from this book for two good reasons; firstly, because it is an admitted borrowing by Perrault from Boccaccio; secondly, because it is not a 'fairy' tale in the true sense of the word.
Who acts: credit · What happens: exclude, admit, be, not be, sense · To what, where: Griselidis, book, admitted borrowing, fairy tale, true sense, word
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 (credit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Griselidis | Griselidis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 excluded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Griselidis | punct |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 excluded | aux:pass |
| 4 | excluded | exclude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 book | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 book | det |
| 7 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 excluded | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 reasons | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 reasons | nummod |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 reasons | amod |
| 11 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 excluded | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 firstly | punct |
| 13 | firstly | firstly | ADV | _ | 4 excluded | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 borrowing | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 borrowing | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 borrowing | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 borrowing | cop |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 borrowing | det |
| 19 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 borrowing | amod |
| 20 | borrowing | borrowing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 excluded | parataxis |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 Perrault | case |
| 22 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 borrowing | nmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 Boccaccio | case |
| 24 | Boccaccio | Boccaccio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Perrault | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 secondly | punct |
| 26 | secondly | secondly | ADV | _ | 4 excluded | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 tale | punct |
| 28 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 36 tale | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 tale | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 tale | cop |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 tale | advmod |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 tale | det |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 fairy | punct |
| 34 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 tale | compound |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 fairy | punct |
| 36 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 excluded | parataxis |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 sense | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 sense | det |
| 39 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 sense | amod |
| 40 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 tale | nmod |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 word | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 word | det |
| 43 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sense | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 excluded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclude in a quote | present · passive | Griselidis | this book | for two good reasons; firstly, secondly property | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from book=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | admit speech: other in a quote | participle | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | credit | a admitted borrowing | by Perrault from Boccaccio | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | credit | a fairy tale | the true sense of the word | tree rules | |||
| 5 | sense in a quote | the word | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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