The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 7
We are fortunate in knowing a great deal about his varied life, deriving our knowledge mainly from D'Alembert's history of the French Academy and from his own memoirs, which were written for his grandchildren, but not published till sixty-six years after his death.
Who acts: We, man · What happens: be, know, derive, write, not publish, die · To what, where: great deal, knowledge, history, own memoirs
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 (We, man), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fortunate | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fortunate | cop |
| 3 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 5 knowing | mark |
| 5 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fortunate | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 deal | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 deal | amod |
| 8 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knowing | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | varied | varied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 life | amod |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deal | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 deriving | punct |
| 14 | deriving | derive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 knowing | conj |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 knowledge | nmod:poss |
| 16 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deriving | obj |
| 17 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 14 deriving | advmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 history | case |
| 19 | D'Alembert | D'Alembert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 history | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 D'Alembert | case |
| 21 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deriving | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Academy | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Academy | det |
| 24 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Academy | compound |
| 25 | Academy | Academy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 history | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 memoirs | cc |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 memoirs | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 memoirs | nmod:poss |
| 29 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 memoirs | amod |
| 30 | memoirs | memoir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 Academy | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 written | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 written | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 written | aux:pass |
| 34 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 memoirs | acl |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 grandchildren | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 grandchildren | nmod:poss |
| 37 | grandchildren | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 written | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 published | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 published | cc |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 published | advmod |
| 41 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fortunate | conj |
| 42 | till | till | ADP | _ | 46 years | case |
| 43 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 six | compound |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 sixty | punct |
| 45 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 years | nummod |
| 46 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 published | obl |
| 47 | after | after | ADP | _ | 49 death | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 death | nmod:poss |
| 49 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 years | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fortunate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | We | fortunate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | gerund | We not said here | a great deal | about man's varied life | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | derive | gerund | We not said here | our knowledge | D'Alembert's history of the French Academy and man's own memoirs | mainly property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent knowledge=Result from history=Material | ||
| 4 | write | past · passive | man's own memoirs | for man's grandchildren | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for grandchild=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | not publish | participle | We not said here | year | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | die | man | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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