The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 95
He served all the arts, and practised most of them.
Who acts: first · What happens: serve, practise · To what, where: arts, most
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 served | nsubj |
| 2 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 arts | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 arts | det |
| 5 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 served | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 practised | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 practised | cc |
| 8 | practised | practise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 served | conj |
| 9 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 practised | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 most | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past | first | all arts | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | practise | past | first not said here | most of arts | 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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