The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 53
Perrault, in praising the writers of his own age, ventured to disparage some of the great authors of the ancient classics.
Who acts: Perrault · What happens: praise, venture, disparage · To what, where: writers, some
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 (Perrault), 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 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Perrault | punct |
| 3 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 4 praising | mark |
| 4 | praising | praise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Perrault | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 writers | det |
| 6 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 praising | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 age | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 age | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 age | amod |
| 10 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 writers | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ventured | punct |
| 12 | ventured | venture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 writers | acl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 disparage | mark |
| 14 | disparage | disparage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ventured | xcomp |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 disparage | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 authors | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 authors | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 authors | amod |
| 19 | authors | author | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 some | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 classics | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 classics | det |
| 22 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 classics | amod |
| 23 | classics | classic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 authors | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Perrault | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | gerund | Perrault not said here | the writers of address's own age | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent writer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | venture | participle | the writers of address's own age not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | disparage | to-infinitive | some | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
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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