The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 26

The Bar proved too arid a profession to engage for long his attention; so he next sought and found a place in the office of another brother, Pierre, who was Chief Commissioner of Taxes in Paris.

Who acts: Bar, Pierre · What happens: prove, engage, seek, find, be, attend · To what, where: profession, place, office, Chief Commissioner

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 (Bar, Pierre), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bar	det
2	Bar	Bar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 proved	nsubj
3	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 arid	advmod
5	arid	arid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 proved	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 profession	det
7	profession	profession	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proved	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 engage	mark
9	engage	engage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 profession	acl
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 attention	case
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 attention	advmod
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 attention	nmod:poss
13	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 engage	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 sought	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 sought	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sought	nsubj
17	next	next	ADV	_	18 sought	advmod
18	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 proved	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 found	cc
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sought	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 place	det
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 found	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 office	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 office	det
25	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 found	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 brother	case
27	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 brother	det
28	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 office	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Pierre	punct
30	Pierre	Pierre	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 office	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Commissioner	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 Commissioner	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 Commissioner	cop
34	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Commissioner	compound
35	Commissioner	commissioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Pierre	appos
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Taxes	case
37	Taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 Commissioner	nmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 Paris	case
39	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Taxes	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 proved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prove	past	the Bar	a profession		arid property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent profession=Theme
2	engage	to-infinitive	the Bar not said here	a profession not said here		for Bar's attention	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	seek	past	Bar			next property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	past	Bar not said here	a place	the office of another brother		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic
5	is a	past	Pierre	Chief Commissioner		of Taxes in Paris	tree rules
6	attend		Bar				nom attention «cognition intransitive»: 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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