The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 19

One of his friends, a boy called Beaurain, espoused his cause, and for the next three or four years the two read together, haphazard, in the Luxembourg Gardens.

Who acts: One, cause · What happens: call, espouse, read, cause · To what, where: boy, cause, haphazard, Luxembourg Gardens · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (One, cause), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 espoused	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 friends	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friends	nmod:poss
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 espoused	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 friends	conj
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 boy	acl
9	Beaurain	Beaurain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 called	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 friends	punct
11	espoused	espouse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cause	nmod:poss
13	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 espoused	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 read	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 read	cc
16	for	for	ADP	_	22 years	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 years	det
18	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 years	amod
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 years	nummod
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 four	cc
21	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 three	conj
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 read	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 two	det
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 years	appos
25	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 espoused	conj
26	together	together	ADV	_	25 read	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 haphazard	punct
28	haphazard	haphazard	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 read	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Gardens	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 Gardens	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Gardens	det
32	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Gardens	compound
33	Gardens	Garden	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 read	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 espoused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle		a boy not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	espouse	past	One	cause's cause			of cause's friends and a boy	tree rules
3	read	present	One not said here	haphazard	the Luxembourg Gardens	year	together property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cause		cause					nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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