The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 33
They were issued anonymously, and Quinault, himself a poet of established reputation, used some of them to forward his suit with a young lady, allowing her to think that they were his own.
Who acts: Quinault, Claude, poems · What happens: issue, establish, use, forward, allow, think · To what, where: poems, some, suit, Claude · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Quinault, Claude, poems), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 issued | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 issued | aux:pass |
| 3 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | anonymously | anonymously | ADV | _ | 3 issued | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 used | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 used | cc |
| 7 | Quinault | Quinault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 used | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 himself | punct |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 Quinault | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 poet | det |
| 11 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Quinault | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 reputation | case |
| 13 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 reputation | amod |
| 14 | reputation | reputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poet | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Quinault | punct |
| 16 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 issued | conj |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 used | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 some | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 forward | mark |
| 21 | forward | forward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 used | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 suit | nmod:poss |
| 23 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 forward | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 lady | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 lady | det |
| 26 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lady | amod |
| 27 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 forward | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 allowing | punct |
| 29 | allowing | allow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 forward | advcl |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 allowing | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 think | mark |
| 32 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 allowing | xcomp |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 own | mark |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 own | nsubj |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 own | cop |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 own | nmod:poss |
| 37 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 think | ccomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 issued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue | past · passive | poems = poem | anonymously property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | establish | participle | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | use | past | Quinault | some | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | ||||
| 4 | forward | to-infinitive | Quinault not said here | Quinault's suit | with a young lady | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suit=Theme | |||
| 5 | allow | gerund | Quinault not said here | Claude | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | Claude not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | past | poems = poem | own property | 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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