The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 31

Beaurain and his brother Nicholas, a doctor of the Sorbonne, assisted him in this perpetration, and Claude made the pen-and-ink sketches with which it was illustrated.

Who acts: Beaurain, Claude, pen · What happens: assist, make, sketch, illustrate · To what, where: Nicholas, perpetration, pen

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 (Beaurain, Claude, pen), 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	Beaurain	Beaurain	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 assisted	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Nicholas	cc
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brother	nmod:poss
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Nicholas	nmod:desc
5	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Beaurain	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 doctor	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 doctor	det
8	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Beaurain	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Sorbonne	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sorbonne	det
11	Sorbonne	Sorbonne	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 doctor	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Beaurain	punct
13	assisted	assist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 assisted	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 perpetration	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 perpetration	det
17	perpetration	perpetration	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 assisted	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 made	cc
20	Claude	Claude	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 made	nsubj
21	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 assisted	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sketches	det
23	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sketches	nsubj
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 sketches	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sketches	cc
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 and	punct
27	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sketches	compound
28	sketches	sketch	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 made	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 which	case
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 illustrated	obl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 illustrated	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 illustrated	aux:pass
33	illustrated	illustrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 sketches	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 assisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	assist	past	Beaurain and Nicholas Beaurain's brother		Nicholas	this perpetration		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
2	make	past	Claude					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sketch		pen					tree rules
4	illustrate	past · passive		pen			with the ink sketches	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with which=Theme

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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