The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 69

Colbert proposed to reserve them to the royal use, but Perrault persuaded him to come there one day for a walk, showed him the citizens taking the air and playing with their children; got the gardeners to testify that these privileges were never abused, and carried his point by declaring, finally, that "the King's pleasaunce was so spacious that there was room for all his children to walk there."

Who acts: Colbert, Perrault, citizens, gardeners, pleasaunce, room · What happens: propose, reserve, persuade, come, show, take · To what, where: Gardens, Colbert, citizens, air, gardeners, privileges · 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 (Colbert, Perrault, citizens, gardeners), 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	Colbert	Colbert	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 proposed	nsubj
2	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 reserve	mark
4	reserve	reserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 proposed	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reserve	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 use	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 use	det
8	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 use	amod
9	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reserve	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 persuaded	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 persuaded	cc
12	Perrault	Perrault	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 persuaded	nsubj
13	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 proposed	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 persuaded	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 come	mark
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 persuaded	xcomp
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 come	advmod
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 day	nummod
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl:unmarked
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 walk	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 walk	det
22	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 showed	punct
24	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 persuaded	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 showed	iobj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 citizens	det
27	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 showed	obj
28	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 citizens	acl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 air	det
30	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 taking	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 playing	cc
32	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 taking	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 children	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 children	nmod:poss
35	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 playing	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 got	punct
37	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 proposed	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 gardeners	det
39	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 got	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 testify	mark
41	testify	testify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 got	xcomp
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 abused	mark
43	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	44 privileges	det
44	privileges	privilege	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 abused	nsubj:pass
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 abused	aux:pass
46	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	47 abused	advmod
47	abused	abuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 testify	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 carried	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 carried	cc
50	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 proposed	parataxis
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 point	nmod:poss
52	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 carried	obj
53	by	by	SCONJ	_	54 declaring	mark
54	declaring	declare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 carried	advcl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 finally	punct
56	finally	finally	ADV	_	54 declaring	advmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 spacious	punct
58	that	that	SCONJ	_	66 spacious	mark
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	66 spacious	punct
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 King	det
61	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 pleasaunce	nmod:poss
62	's	's	PART	_	61 King	case
63	pleasaunce	pleasaunce	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 spacious	nsubj
64	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 spacious	cop
65	so	so	ADV	_	66 spacious	advmod
66	spacious	spacious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 carried	conj
67	that	that	SCONJ	_	69 was	mark
68	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	69 was	expl
69	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 spacious	advcl
70	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 was	nsubj
71	for	for	ADP	_	74 children	case
72	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	74 children	det:predet
73	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	74 children	nmod:poss
74	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 room	nmod
75	to	to	PART	_	76 walk	mark
76	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	70 room	acl
77	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	76 walk	advmod
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 proposed	punct
79	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 proposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	propose	past	Colbert						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	reserve	to-infinitive	Colbert not said here	Gardens = garden				to the royal use	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	persuade	past	Perrault	Colbert					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result
4	come	to-infinitive	Colbert not said here			there	day	for a walk	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	show	past	Perrault not said here	the citizens	Colbert				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient citizen=Topic
6	take	gerund	the citizens not said here	the air					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme
7	play	gerund	the citizens not said here					with Gardens's children	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with child=Co-Agent
8	get	past	Colbert not said here	the gardeners					tree rules
9	testify speech: other	to-infinitive	the gardeners not said here						vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	not abuse	past · passive		this privileges					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
11	carry	past		Colbert's point					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme
12	declare speech: other	gerund						finally property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
13	is in a quote	past	the King's pleasaunce					spacious property	tree rules
14	be in a quote	past	room for Colbert's children			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
15	walk in a quote	to-infinitive	room for Colbert's children not said here			there			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
16	point		Colbert						nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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