The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 57

No doubt Perrault's position was untenable, but he conducted his defence with perfect temper and much wit; and Boileau made himself not a little absurd by his violence and his obvious longing to display the extent of his learning.

Who acts: position, man, Boileau · What happens: be, conduct, not make, display, defend, long · To what, where: defence, man, extent, learning

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 (position, man, 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 doubt	det
2	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 position	nmod:poss
3	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 doubt	appos
4	's	's	PART	_	2 doubt	case
5	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 untenable	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 untenable	cop
7	untenable	untenable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 conducted	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 conducted	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 conducted	nsubj
11	conducted	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 untenable	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 defence	nmod:poss
13	defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 conducted	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 temper	case
15	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 temper	amod
16	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 conducted	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wit	cc
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wit	amod
19	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 temper	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 made	cc
22	Boileau	Boileau	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 made	nsubj
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 untenable	conj
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 made	obj
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 made	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 absurd	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 absurd	amod
28	absurd	absurd	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obl
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 violence	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 violence	nmod:poss
31	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 longing	cc
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 longing	nmod:poss
34	obvious	obvious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 longing	amod
35	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 violence	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 display	mark
37	display	display	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 made	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 extent	det
39	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 display	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 learning	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 learning	nmod:poss
42	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 extent	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 untenable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	no doubt's position		untenable property	tree rules
2	conduct	past	man	man's defence	with perfect temper and much wit	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defence=Theme
3	not make	past	Boileau	man	by man's violence and man's obvious longing; a little absurd obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product
4	display	to-infinitive	Boileau not said here	the extent of man's learning		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent extent=Theme
5	defend		man			nom defence «process transitive»: poss=agent
6	long		man			nom longing «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
7	extend			man's learning		nom extent «state 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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