The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 58
Perrault's case is finally stated in his four volumes, "Le Parallèle des Anciens et des Modernes," which were published in 1688-1696.
Who acts: Le Parallèle · What happens: state, de, publish · To what, where: case, four volumes, Anciens, 1688-1696 · 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 (Le Parallèle), 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 | 3 case | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Perrault | case |
| 3 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stated | aux:pass |
| 5 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 6 stated | advmod |
| 6 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 volumes | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 volumes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 volumes | nummod |
| 10 | volumes | volume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stated | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 des | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 des | punct |
| 13 | Le | Le | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Parallèle | compound |
| 14 | Parallèle | Parallèle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 des | nsubj |
| 15 | des | de | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stated | conj |
| 16 | Anciens | ancien | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 des | obj |
| 17 | et | et | CCONJ | _ | 19 Modernes | cc |
| 18 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Modernes | compound |
| 19 | Modernes | moderne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Anciens | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 published | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 published | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 published | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 published | aux:pass |
| 24 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 Anciens | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 1688-1696 | case |
| 26 | 1688-1696 | 1688-1696 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 published | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | present · passive | Perrault's case | man's four volumes | finally property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | de in a quote | present | Le Parallèle | Anciens et des Modernes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | publish | past · passive | Anciens et des Modernes | 1688-1696 | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
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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