The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 48
The suggestion was adopted, and these addresses became the most famous feature of the Academy's proceedings and are so to the present day.
Who acts: addresses, Academy · What happens: adopt, become, be, feature, proceed · To what, where: suggestion, famous feature, proceedings
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 (addresses, Academy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 suggestion | det |
| 2 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 adopted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 adopted | aux:pass |
| 4 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 became | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 became | cc |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 addresses | det |
| 8 | addresses | address | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 became | nsubj |
| 9 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 adopted | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 feature | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 famous | advmod |
| 12 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feature | amod |
| 13 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 became | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 proceedings | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Academy | det |
| 16 | Academy | Academy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 proceedings | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Academy | case |
| 18 | proceedings | proceedings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 feature | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 day | cc |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 day | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 day | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 24 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 day | amod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 became | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 adopted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adopt | past · passive | the suggestion | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | become | past | this addresses | the famous feature of the Academy's proceedings | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | this addresses not said here | to the present day | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feature | the Academy's proceedings | nom feature «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | proceed | the Academy | nom proceedings «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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