The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 54
Boileau lashed himself into a fury of opposition and hurled strident insults against the heretic.
Who acts: Boileau · What happens: lash, hurl, infuriate · To what, where: Boileau, fury, strident insults, heretic, opposition
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 (Boileau), 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 | Boileau | Boileau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lashed | nsubj |
| 2 | lashed | lash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 lashed | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 fury | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fury | det |
| 6 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lashed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 opposition | case |
| 8 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fury | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hurled | cc |
| 10 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lashed | conj |
| 11 | strident | strident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 insults | amod |
| 12 | insults | insult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hurled | obj |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 15 heretic | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heretic | det |
| 15 | heretic | heretic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hurled | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lash | past | Boileau | Boileau | into a fury of opposition result | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into fury=Result | |||
| 2 | hurl | past | Boileau not said here | strident insults | the heretic | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent insult=Theme against heretic=Destination | |||
| 3 | infuriate | opposition | nom fury «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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