The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 5
_Charles Perrault must have been as charming a fellow as a man could meet.
Who acts: Charles, man · What happens: charm, meet · To what, where: fellow
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, man), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 charming | punct |
| 2 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 charming | nsubj |
| 3 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Charles | flat |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 charming | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 charming | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 charming | aux |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 charming | mark |
| 8 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fellow | det |
| 10 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 charming | obj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 meet | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 meet | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 meet | aux |
| 15 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 charming | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 charming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charm | must · perfect · progressive | Charles | a fellow | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fellow=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | meet | could | a man | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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