The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 68
_Before he went, he succeeded in frustrating a project for closing the Tuileries Gardens against the people of Paris and their children.
Who acts: influence · What happens: go, succeed, frustrate, close · To what, where: project, Tuileries Gardens
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 (influence), 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 went | punct |
| 2 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 succeeded | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 succeeded | nsubj |
| 7 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 frustrating | mark |
| 9 | frustrating | frustrate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 succeeded | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 project | det |
| 11 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 frustrating | obj |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 closing | mark |
| 13 | closing | close | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 frustrating | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Gardens | det |
| 15 | Tuileries | Tuilery | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 Gardens | compound |
| 16 | Gardens | Garden | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 closing | obj |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 people | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 people | det |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 closing | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Paris | case |
| 21 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 people | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 children | cc |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 children | nmod:poss |
| 24 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Paris | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | influence | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | succeed | past | influence | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | frustrate | gerund | influence not said here | a project | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus project=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | close | gerund | influence not said here | the Tuileries Gardens | against the people of Paris and people's children | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=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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