The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 80
He wrote two comedies--"L'Oublieux" in 1691, and "Les Fontanges."
Who acts: Apologie · What happens: write · To what, where: two comedies, 1691
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 (Apologie), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wrote | nsubj |
| 2 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 comedies | nummod |
| 4 | comedies | comedy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wrote | obj |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 L'Oublieux | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 L'Oublieux | punct |
| 7 | L'Oublieux | L'Oublieux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 comedies | appos |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 L'Oublieux | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1691 | case |
| 10 | 1691 | 1691 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 wrote | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Fontanges | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Fontanges | cc |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Les | punct |
| 14 | Les | Les | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Fontanges | compound |
| 15 | Fontanges | fontange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wrote | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 Fontanges | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Fontanges | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | Apologie | two comedies | 1691 | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent comedy=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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