The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 87
These biographies are written with kindly justice, and form a valuable contribution to the history of the reign of the Roi Soleil.
What happens: write, form · To what, where: biographies, valuable contribution, history
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: 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 biographies | det |
| 2 | biographies | biography | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 written | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 written | aux:pass |
| 4 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 justice | case |
| 6 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 7 justice | advmod |
| 7 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 written | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 form | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 form | cc |
| 10 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 written | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 contribution | det |
| 12 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 contribution | amod |
| 13 | contribution | contribution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 form | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 history | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 history | det |
| 16 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 contribution | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 reign | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 reign | det |
| 19 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 history | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Soleil | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Soleil | det |
| 22 | Roi | Roi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Soleil | compound |
| 23 | Soleil | Soleil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 reign | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present · passive | this biographies | with justice | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | form | present | a valuable contribution | the history of the reign of the Roi Soleil | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent contribution=Theme to history=Recipient |
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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