The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 51
_The novelty of his views did not always commend them to his brother 'Immortals.'
Who acts: novelty, address · What happens: not commend, view · To what, where: views
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 (novelty, address), 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 | _ | 10 commend | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 novelty | det |
| 3 | novelty | novelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 commend | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 views | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 views | nmod:poss |
| 6 | views | view | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 novelty | nmod |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 commend | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 commend | advmod |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 commend | advmod |
| 10 | commend | commend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 commend | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Immortals | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Immortals | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 14 brother | case |
| 16 | Immortals | immortal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 commend | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 commend | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 commend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not commend | past · do-support | the novelty of address's views | views = view | to address's brother's Immortals; always property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | view | address | nom view «cognition transitive»: 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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