The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 34

Perrault, when told of Quinault's pretensions, deemed it necessary to disclose his authorship; but, on hearing of the use to which his work had been put, he gallantly remained in the background, forgave the fraud, and made a friend of the culprit.

Who acts: Perrault, hearing, use, Quinault · What happens: tell, deem, disclose, put, remain, forgive · To what, where: suit, authorship, work, background, fraud, friend · 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 (Perrault, hearing, use, Quinault), 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	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Perrault	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 told	advmod
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 pretensions	case
6	Quinault	Quinault	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 pretensions	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Quinault	case
8	pretensions	pretension	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 deemed	punct
10	deemed	deem	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 deemed	obj
12	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 deemed	xcomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 disclose	mark
14	disclose	disclose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 necessary	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 authorship	nmod:poss
16	authorship	authorship	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 disclose	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 forgave	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 forgave	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hearing	punct
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 hearing	case
21	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 forgave	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 use	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 use	det
24	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hearing	nmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 put	obl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 work	nmod:poss
28	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 put	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 put	aux:pass
31	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 use	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 remained	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 remained	nsubj
34	gallantly	gallantly	ADV	_	35 remained	advmod
35	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 put	conj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 background	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 background	det
38	background	background	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 remained	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hearing	punct
40	forgave	forgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 fraud	det
42	fraud	fraud	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 forgave	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 made	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 made	cc
45	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 forgave	conj
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 friend	det
47	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 made	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 culprit	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 culprit	det
50	culprit	culprit	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 friend	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle	Perrault			of Quinault's pretensions	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	deem	past	Perrault not said here	suit		necessary property	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Attribute
3	disclose	to-infinitive	Perrault not said here	Quinault's authorship			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot authorship=Topic
4	put	past · perfect · passive		Quinault's work		to the use	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
5	remain	past	hearing		the background	gallantly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in background=Location
6	forgive	past	hearing of the use	the fraud			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fraud=Theme
7	make	past	hearing of the use not said here	a friend of the culprit			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product
8	hear		the use				nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=agent
9	work		Quinault				nom work «act 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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