The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 77
Between the years 1688 and 1696 appeared the "Parallèle des Anciens et des Modernes" to which I have already referred.
Who acts: 1688, Parallèle, I · What happens: appear, de, refer · To what, where: Anciens · 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 (1688, Parallèle, I), 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 years | det |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 appeared | obl |
| 4 | 1688 | 1688 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 appeared | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 1696 | cc |
| 6 | 1696 | 1696 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 1688 | conj |
| 7 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 des | det |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 des | punct |
| 10 | Parallèle | Parallèle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 des | nsubj |
| 11 | des | de | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 appeared | ccomp |
| 12 | Anciens | ancien | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 des | obj |
| 13 | et | et | CCONJ | _ | 15 Modernes | cc |
| 14 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Modernes | compound |
| 15 | Modernes | moderne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Anciens | conj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Modernes | punct |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 referred | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 referred | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 referred | aux |
| 21 | already | already | ADV | _ | 22 referred | advmod |
| 22 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Anciens | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | 1688 | year | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | de in a quote | present | Parallèle | Anciens et des Modernes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | refer | present · perfect | I | to Anciens et des Modernes | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to which=Co-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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