The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 36
_Architecture next engaged his attention, and in 1657 he designed a house at Viry for his brother and supervised its construction.
Who acts: Quinault, house · What happens: engage, design, supervise, attend, construct · To what, where: Architecture, house, 1657, construction
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, house), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Architecture | punct |
| 2 | Architecture | architecture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 engaged | obl |
| 3 | next | next | ADV | _ | 4 engaged | advmod |
| 4 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 attention | nmod:poss |
| 6 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 engaged | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 designed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 designed | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1657 | case |
| 10 | 1657 | 1657 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 designed | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 designed | nsubj |
| 12 | designed | design | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 engaged | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 designed | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Viry | case |
| 16 | Viry | Viry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 brother | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 designed | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 supervised | cc |
| 21 | supervised | supervise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 designed | conj |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 construction | nmod:poss |
| 23 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 supervised | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | past | Architecture | next property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient | ||||
| 2 | design | past | Quinault | a house | 1657 | at Viry; for Quinault's brother | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent house=Result for brother=Beneficiary | ||
| 3 | supervise | past | Quinault not said here | house's construction | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent construction=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | attend | Quinault | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | construct | house | nom construction «act transitive»: 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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