The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 55
Racine, more adroit, pretended to think that the poem was a piece of ingenious irony.
Who acts: poem · What happens: pretend, think, be · To what, where: piece · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (poem), 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 | Racine | racine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 adroit | punct |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 adroit | advmod |
| 4 | adroit | adroit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Racine | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pretended | punct |
| 6 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 adroit | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 think | mark |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pretended | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 piece | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 poem | det |
| 11 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 piece | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 piece | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 piece | det |
| 14 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 think | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 irony | case |
| 16 | ingenious | ingenious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 irony | amod |
| 17 | irony | irony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 piece | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Racine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | the poem | a piece | of ingenious irony | tree rules |
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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