The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 38

Perrault flung himself with ardour into this work, though not to the exclusion of his other activities.

Who acts: Perrault · What happens: fling, exclude · To what, where: Quinault, work, other activities

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), 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	2 flung	nsubj
2	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 flung	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 ardour	case
5	ardour	ardour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flung	obl
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 work	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 work	det
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flung	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 exclusion	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 exclusion	mark
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 exclusion	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 exclusion	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 exclusion	det
14	exclusion	exclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flung	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 activities	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 activities	nmod:poss
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 activities	amod
18	activities	activity	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 exclusion	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fling	past	Perrault	Quinault		this work		with ardour; to the exclusion of Quinault's other activities	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into work=Destination
2	exclude			Quinault's other activities					nom exclusion «state 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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