The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 61
_After twenty years in the service of Colbert, the sun of Perrault's fortunes passed its zenith.
Who acts: sun · What happens: pass, service · To what, where: zenith, service, Colbert
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 (sun), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 years | punct |
| 2 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 3 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 service | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 service | det |
| 7 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 passed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Colbert | case |
| 9 | Colbert | Colbert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 service | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 passed | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sun | det |
| 12 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 passed | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fortunes | case |
| 14 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 fortunes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Perrault | case |
| 16 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sun | nmod |
| 17 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 zenith | nmod:poss |
| 19 | zenith | zenith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 passed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the sun of Perrault's fortunes | sun's zenith | the service of Colbert | year | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent zenith=Theme in service=Destination | ||
| 2 | service | Colbert | nom service «act 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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