The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 52

Those expressed in his poem "Le Siècle de Louis XIV," which he read as an Academician of sixteen years' standing, initiated one of the most famous and lasting literary quarrels of the era.

Who acts: address, Academician, sixteen years, era · What happens: express, read, initiate, last, stand, quarrel · To what, where: poem, one

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 (address, Academician, sixteen years, era), 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	Those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	root	root
2	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Those	acl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 poem	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 poem	nmod:poss
5	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expressed	obl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Le	punct
7	Le	Le	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 poem	appos
8	Siècle	Siècle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Le	flat
9	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Le	flat
10	Louis	Louis	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 XIV	compound
11	XIV	XIV	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Le	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Those	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 read	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 read	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 read	nsubj
16	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Those	acl:relcl
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 Academician	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 Academician	det
19	Academician	Academician	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 read	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 standing	case
21	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 years	nummod
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 standing	nmod:poss
23	'	's	PART	_	22 years	case
24	standing	standing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Academician	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 initiated	punct
26	initiated	initiate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 Academician	acl:relcl
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 initiated	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	35 quarrels	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 quarrels	det
30	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	31 famous	advmod
31	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 quarrels	amod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lasting	cc
33	lasting	last	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 famous	conj
34	literary	literary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 quarrels	amod
35	quarrels	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 one	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 era	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 era	det
38	era	era	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 quarrels	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	express	participle			address's poem		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	read	past	address			as a Academician of sixteen years's standing	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus as academician=Attribute
3	initiate	participle	a Academician of sixteen years's standing not said here	one of the famous literary quarrels of the era			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	last	gerund	a Academician of sixteen years's standing not said here				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
5	stand		sixteen years				nom standing «state intransitive»: poss=agent
6	quarrel		the era				nom quarrel «communication intransitive»: of=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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