The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 62
His brother, the Commissioner of Taxes, had a dispute with the Minister and was disgraced.
Who acts: brother · What happens: have, disgrace · To what, where: dispute
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 (brother), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Commissioner | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Commissioner | det |
| 5 | Commissioner | Commissioner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 brother | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Taxes | case |
| 7 | Taxes | Tax | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 Commissioner | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 brother | punct |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dispute | det |
| 11 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Minister | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Minister | det |
| 14 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 dispute | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 disgraced | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 disgraced | aux:pass |
| 17 | disgraced | disgrace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 had | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Colbert's brother | a dispute | with the Minister | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dispute=Patient | |||
| 2 | disgrace | past · passive | Colbert's brother not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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