The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 76
In 1686 he published his long narrative poem "Saint Paulin Evesque de Nole" with "a Christian Epistle upon Penitence" and "an Ode to the Newly-converted," which he dedicated to Bossuet.
Who acts: close · What happens: publish, dedicate · To what, where: long narrative poem, 1686, Bossuet
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1686 | case |
| 2 | 1686 | 1686 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 published | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 published | nsubj |
| 4 | published | publish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 poem | nmod:poss |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 poem | amod |
| 7 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 poem | compound |
| 8 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 published | obj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Paulin | punct |
| 10 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Paulin | compound |
| 11 | Paulin | Paulin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 poem | appos |
| 12 | Evesque | Evesque | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Paulin | flat |
| 13 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Paulin | flat |
| 14 | Nole | Nole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Paulin | flat |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Paulin | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 Epistle | case |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Epistle | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Epistle | det |
| 19 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Epistle | amod |
| 20 | Epistle | epistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 poem | nmod |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 Penitence | case |
| 22 | Penitence | penitence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Epistle | nmod |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Epistle | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Ode | cc |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Ode | punct |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 Ode | det |
| 27 | Ode | Ode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Epistle | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 converted | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 converted | det |
| 30 | Newly | Newly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 converted | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Newly | punct |
| 32 | converted | converted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Ode | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 dedicated | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 dedicated | punct |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 dedicated | nsubj |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 dedicated | nsubj |
| 37 | dedicated | dedicate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 published | conj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 Bossuet | case |
| 39 | Bossuet | Bossuet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 dedicated | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 published | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | publish | past | close | close's long narrative poem | 1686 | with a Christian Epistle upon Penitence and a Ode to the Newly converted | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Result | ||
| 2 | dedicate | past | Bossuet | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent to bossuet=Goal |
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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