The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 72
At last, however, the Queen proved with child, and was brought to bed of a daughter.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: prove, bring · To what, where: last, bed
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 (Queen), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 proved | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 proved | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 proved | nsubj |
| 8 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 child | case |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 proved | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 brought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brought | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux:pass |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 proved | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 bed | case |
| 16 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 daughter | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 daughter | det |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bed | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 proved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | past | the Queen | last | with child; however property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | the Queen not said here | bed of a daughter | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to bed=Destination |
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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