The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 70
There were formerly a King and a Queen, who were so sorry that they had no children, so sorry that it cannot be expressed.
Who acts: King · What happens: be, have, not express · To what, where: children, Wood
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 5 King | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 were | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Queen | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 King | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sorry | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 sorry | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sorry | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 sorry | advmod |
| 13 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 King | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 had | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sorry | ccomp |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 children | det |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sorry | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 sorry | advmod |
| 21 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 were | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 expressed | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 expressed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 expressed | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 expressed | advmod |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 expressed | aux:pass |
| 27 | expressed | express | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 sorry | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a King and a Queen | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a King and a Queen | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | King | no children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not express | can · passive | Wood | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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