The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 66
So Perrault, then just fifty-five, slid quietly from his service in the year 1683.
Who acts: Perrault, Colbert · What happens: slide, service · To what, where: service
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 (Perrault, Colbert), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 slid | advmod |
| 2 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 slid | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 five | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 five | advmod |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 five | advmod |
| 6 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 five | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 fifty | punct |
| 8 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Perrault | list |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Perrault | punct |
| 10 | slid | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 10 slid | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 service | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 service | nmod:poss |
| 14 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slid | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 year | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 year | det |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 service | nmod |
| 18 | 1683 | 1683 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 year | flat |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 slid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slide | past | Perrault | Colbert's service in the year | quietly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from service=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | service | Colbert | in the year | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent in=obl |
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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