The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 41
_Claude Perrault had something of his brother's versatility and shared his love for architecture, and the two now became deeply interested in the various schemes which were mooted for the completion of the Louvre.
Who acts: _, two · What happens: have, share, become, moot, love, complete · To what, where: something, love, various schemes, Louvre
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 (_, two), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 2 | Claude | Claude | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | flat |
| 3 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | flat |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 versatility | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 versatility | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 brother | case |
| 10 | versatility | versatility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 something | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shared | cc |
| 12 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 love | nmod:poss |
| 14 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shared | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 architecture | case |
| 16 | architecture | architecture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shared | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 became | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 became | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 two | det |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 became | nsubj |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 became | advmod |
| 22 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 23 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 24 interested | advmod |
| 24 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 became | xcomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 schemes | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 schemes | det |
| 27 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 schemes | amod |
| 28 | schemes | scheme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 interested | obl |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 mooted | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 mooted | aux:pass |
| 31 | mooted | moot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 schemes | acl:relcl |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 completion | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 completion | det |
| 34 | completion | completion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 mooted | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Louvre | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Louvre | det |
| 37 | Louvre | Louvre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 completion | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | _ | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 2 | share | past | _ not said here | _'s love | for architecture | tree rules | |||
| 3 | become | past | the two | now | interested property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | moot | past · passive | the various schemes | for the completion of the Louvre | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | love | _ | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | complete | the Louvre | nom completion «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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