The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 32

In the few years that had elapsed since the writing of this burlesque Perrault had acquired more sense and taste, and his new poems--in particular the "Portrait d'Iris" and the "Dialogue entre l'Amour et l'Amitié"--were found charming by his contemporaries.

Who acts: that, Perrault, new poems · What happens: elapse, acquire, find, charm, write · To what, where: more sense, new poems, burlesque

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 (that, Perrault, new poems), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 years	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 years	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 elapsed	obl
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 elapsed	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 elapsed	aux
7	elapsed	elapse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	since	since	ADP	_	10 writing	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 writing	det
10	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 elapsed	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 burlesque	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 burlesque	det
13	burlesque	burlesque	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 writing	nmod
14	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 acquired	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 acquired	aux
16	acquired	acquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 burlesque	acl:relcl
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 sense	amod
18	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 acquired	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 taste	cc
20	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sense	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 found	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 found	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 poems	nmod:poss
24	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 poems	amod
25	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 found	nsubj:pass
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 d'Iris	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 particular	case
28	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 d'Iris	amod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 d'Iris	det
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 d'Iris	punct
31	Portrait	Portrait	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 d'Iris	compound
32	d'Iris	d'iris	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 poems	nmod
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 d'Iris	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 l'Amour	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 l'Amour	det
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 l'Amour	punct
37	Dialogue	dialogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 entre	compound
38	entre	entre	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 l'Amour	compound
39	l'Amour	l'amour	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 d'Iris	conj
40	et	et	X	Foreign=Yes	41 l'Amitié	compound
41	l'Amitié	l'amitié	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 l'Amour	conj
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 l'Amour	punct
43	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 poems	punct
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 found	aux:pass
45	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 elapsed	parataxis
46	charming	charm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 found	xcomp
47	by	by	ADP	_	49 contemporaries	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 contemporaries	nmod:poss
49	contemporaries	contemporary	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 charming	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 elapsed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	elapse	past · perfect	that		since the writing of this burlesque; year		tree rules
2	acquire	past · perfect	Perrault	more sense and taste			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Theme
3	find	past · passive		Nicholas's new poems the particular Portrait d'Iris and the entre l'Amour and et l'Amitié			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
4	charm	gerund	Nicholas's new poems the particular Portrait d'Iris and the entre l'Amour and et l'Amitié not said here			by Nicholas's contemporaries	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	write			this burlesque			nom writing «act transitive»: of=patient

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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