The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 24
In the mean-time he had walked the hospitals with some vague notion of following his brother Claude into the profession of medicine, and had played a small part as a theological controversialist in the quarrel then raging, about the nature of grace, between the Jesuits and the Jansenists.
Who acts: degree, vague notion · What happens: walk, follow, play, rage · To what, where: hospitals, brother, small part
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 (degree, vague notion), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 3 | mean | mean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walked | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 walked | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 walked | aux |
| 8 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hospitals | det |
| 10 | hospitals | hospital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 walked | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 notion | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 notion | det |
| 13 | vague | vague | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 notion | amod |
| 14 | notion | notion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walked | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 following | case |
| 16 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 notion | acl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 following | obj |
| 19 | Claude | Claude | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 brother | appos |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 profession | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 profession | det |
| 22 | profession | profession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 following | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 medicine | case |
| 24 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 profession | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 played | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 played | cc |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 played | aux |
| 28 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 walked | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 part | det |
| 30 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 part | amod |
| 31 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 played | obj |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 controversialist | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 controversialist | det |
| 34 | theological | theological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 controversialist | amod |
| 35 | controversialist | controversialist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 played | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 quarrel | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 quarrel | det |
| 38 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 controversialist | nmod |
| 39 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 raging | advmod |
| 40 | raging | rage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 played | advcl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 nature | punct |
| 42 | about | about | ADP | _ | 44 nature | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 nature | det |
| 44 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 raging | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 grace | case |
| 46 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 nature | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 Jesuits | punct |
| 48 | between | between | ADP | _ | 50 Jesuits | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 Jesuits | det |
| 50 | Jesuits | Jesuit | PROPN | Number=Plur | 40 raging | obl |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 Jansenists | cc |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 Jansenists | det |
| 53 | Jansenists | Jansenist | PROPN | Number=Plur | 50 Jesuits | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · perfect | degree | the hospitals | time | with some vague notion | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hospital=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | follow | gerund | some vague notion not said here | degree's brother | into the profession of medicine | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent brother=Theme into profession=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | play | past · perfect | degree not said here | a small part | as a theological controversialist in the quarrel | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | |||
| 4 | rage | gerund | degree not said here | then | about the nature of grace; between the Jesuits and the Jansenists | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about nature=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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