The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 17

He claimed that novelty was in itself a merit, and on this they parted.

Who acts: cause, novelty, tenets · What happens: claim, be, part · To what, where: merit, this

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, novelty, tenets), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 claimed	nsubj
2	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 itself	mark
4	novelty	novelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 itself	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 itself	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 itself	case
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 claimed	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 merit	det
9	merit	merit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 claimed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 parted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 parted	cc
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 this	case
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 parted	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 parted	nsubj
15	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 claimed	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 claimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	past	cause	a merit			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent merit=Topic
2	is	past	novelty			in novelty	tree rules
3	part	past	tenets = tenet		this		vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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