The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 75
_The close of Perrault's official career marked the beginning of his period of greatest literary activity.
Who acts: close · What happens: mark, begin · To what, where: beginning, period
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 (close), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 marked | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 close | det |
| 3 | close | close | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marked | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 career | case |
| 5 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 career | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Perrault | case |
| 7 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 career | amod |
| 8 | career | career | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 close | nmod |
| 9 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beginning | det |
| 11 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marked | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 period | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 period | nmod:poss |
| 14 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beginning | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 activity | case |
| 16 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 activity | amod |
| 17 | literary | literary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 activity | amod |
| 18 | activity | activity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 period | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | past | the close of Perrault's official career | the beginning of close's period of greatest literary activity | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent beginning=Destination | ||||
| 2 | begin | close's period of greatest literary activity | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=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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