The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 84
Toward the end of his life he busied himself with the "Éloges des Hommes Illustres du Siècle de Louis XIV."
Who acts: Apologie · What happens: busy · To what, where: Apologie
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 | Toward | toward | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 busied | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 life | nmod:poss |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 busied | nsubj |
| 8 | busied | busy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 busied | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 XIV | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 XIV | det |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hommes | punct |
| 13 | Éloges | Éloges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 des | compound |
| 14 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Hommes | compound |
| 15 | Hommes | homme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 XIV | nsubj |
| 16 | Illustres | Illustre | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 XIV | compound |
| 17 | du | du | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 Illustres | dep |
| 18 | Siècle | Siècle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 XIV | compound |
| 19 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Siècle | flat |
| 20 | Louis | Louis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 XIV | compound |
| 21 | XIV | XIV | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 busied | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 busied | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 busied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | busy | past | Apologie | Apologie | toward the end of Apologie's life | with the Illustres Siècle Louis XIV | tree rules |
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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