The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 93
He did his duty to his family, his employer, his friends, and to the public at large.
Who acts: first · What happens: do · To what, where: duty
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 (first), 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 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 duty | nmod:poss |
| 4 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 family | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 family | nmod:poss |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 employer | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 employer | nmod:poss |
| 10 | employer | employer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 family | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 friends | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friends | nmod:poss |
| 13 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 family | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 public | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 public | cc |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 public | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 public | det |
| 18 | public | public | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | parataxis |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 large | case |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 public | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | first | first's duty | to first's family and first's employer and first's friends | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality |
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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