The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 37

Colbert approved so much of this performance that he employed him in the superintendence of the royal buildings and put him in special charge of Versailles, which was then in process of erection.

Who acts: Colbert, special charge · What happens: approve, employ, put, be, superintend, charge · To what, where: much, Quinault, superintendence, special charge, process, royal buildings

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 (Colbert, special charge), 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	Colbert	Colbert	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 approved	nsubj
2	approved	approve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 approved	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 performance	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 performance	det
7	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 much	nmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 employed	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 employed	nsubj
10	employed	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 much	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 employed	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 superintendence	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 superintendence	det
14	superintendence	superintendence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 employed	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 buildings	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 buildings	det
17	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 buildings	amod
18	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 superintendence	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 put	cc
20	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 employed	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 put	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 charge	case
23	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 charge	amod
24	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Versailles	case
26	Versailles	Versailles	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 charge	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 process	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 process	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 process	cop
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 process	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 process	case
32	process	process	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 charge	appos
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 erection	case
34	erection	erection	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 process	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 approved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	approve	past	Colbert	much of this performance				vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Beneficiary
2	employ	past	Colbert	Quinault	the superintendence of the royal buildings			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	put	infinitive	Colbert not said here	Quinault	special charge of Versailles			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in charge=Destination
4	is	past	special charge of Versailles		process	then	of erection	tree rules
5	superintend			the royal buildings				nom superintendence «act transitive»: of=patient
6	charge			Versailles				nom charge «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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