The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 139
Besides, I always feel that it is an impertinence to describe pictures in their presence.
Who acts: I, credit · What happens: feel, be, describe · To what, where: impertinence, pictures, presence
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 (I, credit), 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 5 feel | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 feel | advmod |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 impertinence | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 impertinence | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 impertinence | cop |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 impertinence | det |
| 10 | impertinence | impertinence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feel | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 describe | mark |
| 12 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 feel | advcl |
| 13 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 describe | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 presence | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 presence | nmod:poss |
| 16 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 describe | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | I | always property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | credit | a impertinence | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | describe | to-infinitive | I not said here | pictures | pictures's presence | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent picture=Theme |
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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