The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 23
_In 1651 he took his degree at the University of Orléans, where degrees were given with scandalous readiness, payment of fees being the only essential preliminary.
Who acts: _ · What happens: take, give, be · To what, where: degree, University, degrees, only essential preliminary
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 (_), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 1651 | case |
| 3 | 1651 | 1651 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 _ | nmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 degree | nmod:poss |
| 7 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 University | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 University | det |
| 10 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Orléans | case |
| 12 | Orléans | Orléans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 University | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 given | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 given | advmod |
| 15 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 given | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 given | aux:pass |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 University | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 readiness | case |
| 19 | scandalous | scandalous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 readiness | amod |
| 20 | readiness | readiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 given | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 payment | punct |
| 22 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 readiness | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fees | case |
| 24 | fees | fee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 preliminary | obl |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 preliminary | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 preliminary | det |
| 27 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 preliminary | amod |
| 28 | essential | essential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 preliminary | amod |
| 29 | preliminary | preliminary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 payment | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | _ in 1651 | _'s degree | the University of Orléans | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent degree=Theme at university=Asset | |||
| 2 | give | past · passive | degrees | with scandalous readiness | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | gerund | the only essential preliminary | of fees | tree rules |
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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