The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 43
Charles conceived the idea of the great east front and communicated it to Claude, who drew the plans and was commissioned to carry them out.
Who acts: Charles, Claude · What happens: conceive, communicate, draw, commission, carry out · To what, where: idea, Claude, plans, Academy
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 (Charles, Claude), 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 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 conceived | nsubj |
| 2 | conceived | conceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 idea | det |
| 4 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 conceived | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 front | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 front | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 front | amod |
| 8 | east | east | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 front | amod |
| 9 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 idea | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 communicated | cc |
| 11 | communicated | communicate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 conceived | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 communicated | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Claude | case |
| 14 | Claude | Claude | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 communicated | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drew | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 drew | nsubj |
| 17 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Claude | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 plans | det |
| 19 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 drew | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 commissioned | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 commissioned | aux:pass |
| 22 | commissioned | commission | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 drew | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 carry | mark |
| 24 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 commissioned | xcomp |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 carry | obj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 carry | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 conceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conceive | past | Charles | the idea of the great east front | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme | ||||
| 2 | communicate | past | Charles not said here | idea | Claude | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to claude=Recipient | |||
| 3 | draw | past | Claude | the plans | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Theme | ||||
| 4 | commission | past · passive | Claude not said here | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | carry out | to-infinitive | Claude not said here | Academy | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
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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