The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 42
Bernini was summoned by the King from Rome, and entrusted with the task; but the brothers Perrault intervened.
Who acts: King, brothers · What happens: summon, entrust, intervene · To what, where: Bernini, Rome
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 (King, brothers), 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 | Bernini | Bernini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 summoned | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 summoned | aux:pass |
| 3 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 King | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 summoned | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Rome | case |
| 8 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 summoned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 entrusted | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 entrusted | cc |
| 11 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 summoned | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 task | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 task | det |
| 14 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entrusted | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 intervened | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 intervened | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 brothers | det |
| 18 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 intervened | nsubj |
| 19 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 brothers | flat |
| 20 | intervened | intervene | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 summoned | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past · passive | the King | Bernini | Rome | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | entrust | participle | the King not said here | with the task | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with task=Theme | ||||
| 3 | intervene | past | the brothers | tree rules |
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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