The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 15
_The cause of this quarrel throws a bright light on Perraults subsequent career.
Who acts: cause · What happens: throw, cause · To what, where: bright light, Perraults, quarrel
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 (cause), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 throws | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cause | det |
| 3 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 throws | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 quarrel | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 quarrel | det |
| 6 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cause | nmod |
| 7 | throws | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 light | det |
| 9 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 light | amod |
| 10 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 throws | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Perraults | case |
| 12 | Perraults | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 throws | obl |
| 13 | subsequent | subsequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 career | amod |
| 14 | career | career | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 throws | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 throws | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | present | the cause of this quarrel | a bright light | Perraults | subsequent career obl | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent light=Theme on perrault=Destination | ||
| 2 | cause | this quarrel | nom cause «event 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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