The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 97

As a good Civil Servant he was no politician, and he showed no leaning whatever toward what was regarded in his time as the greatest of all professions--that of arms.

Who acts: first · What happens: be, show, lean, regard · To what, where: politician, whatever

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	As	as	ADP	_	5 Servant	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Servant	det
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Servant	amod
4	Civil	civil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Servant	amod
5	Servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 politician	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 politician	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 politician	cop
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 politician	det
9	politician	politician	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 showed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 showed	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 showed	nsubj
13	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 politician	acl:relcl
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 leaning	det
15	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 showed	advcl
16	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 leaning	obj
17	toward	toward	ADP	_	20 regarded	mark
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 regarded	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 regarded	aux:pass
20	regarded	regard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 whatever	acl:relcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 time	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 time	nmod:poss
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 regarded	obl
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 greatest	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 greatest	det
26	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 regarded	obl:unmarked
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 professions	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 professions	det
29	professions	profession	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 greatest	obl
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 that	punct
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 politician	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 arms	case
33	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 that	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 politician	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	first	no politician		as a good Civil Servant; that nmod	tree rules
2	show	past	first	no politician not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent politician=Recipient
3	lean	gerund	first not said here	whatever			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whatever=Theme
4	regard	past · passive			time	as the greatest	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme as great=Value

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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