The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 71
_Sainte-Beuve, seventy years ago, pleaded that this service to the children of Paris should be commemorated by a statue of Perrault in the centre of the Tuileries.
Who acts: Sainte, statue · What happens: plead, commemorate · To what, where: service, centre
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 (Sainte, statue), 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 | _ | 2 Sainte | punct |
| 2 | Sainte | Sainte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 pleaded | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Beuve | punct |
| 4 | Beuve | Beuve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sainte | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ago | punct |
| 6 | seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 10 pleaded | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pleaded | punct |
| 10 | pleaded | plead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 commemorated | mark |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 service | det |
| 13 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 commemorated | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 children | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 children | det |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 service | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Paris | case |
| 18 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 children | nmod |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 commemorated | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 commemorated | aux:pass |
| 21 | commemorated | commemorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 pleaded | advcl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 statue | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 statue | det |
| 24 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 commemorated | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Perrault | case |
| 26 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 statue | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 centre | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 centre | det |
| 29 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 commemorated | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Tuileries | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Tuileries | det |
| 32 | Tuileries | Tuilery | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 centre | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pleaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plead speech: request | past | Sainte and Beuve | ago property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | commemorate | should · passive | a statue of Perrault | this service to the children of Paris | the centre of the Tuileries | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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