The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 56
Most men of letters hastened to participate in the battle.
What happens: hasten, participate · To what, where: letters
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: 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 men | amod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 letters | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 letters | case |
| 4 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 letters | acl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 participate | mark |
| 7 | participate | participate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hastened | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 battle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 battle | det |
| 10 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 participate | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 letters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | letters not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | participate | to-infinitive | in the battle | vn cooperate-73.1-2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in battle=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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