The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 142
It is seldom, indeed, that an illustrator enters so thoroughly into the spirit of his text.
Who acts: publisher, illustrator · What happens: be, enter · To what, where: spirit
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 (publisher, illustrator), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seldom | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seldom | cop |
| 3 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 indeed | punct |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 seldom | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 enters | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 enters | mark |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 illustrator | det |
| 9 | illustrator | illustrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 enters | nsubj |
| 10 | enters | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seldom | advcl |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 thoroughly | advmod |
| 12 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 10 enters | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 spirit | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spirit | det |
| 15 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 enters | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 text | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 text | nmod:poss |
| 18 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spirit | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seldom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | publisher | indeed, seldom property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | present | a illustrator | the spirit of illustrator's text | thoroughly property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into spirit=Initial_Location |
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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