The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 77
The King ordered her a cover, but could not furnish her with a case of gold as the others, because they had seven only made for the seven Fairies.
Who acts: King, seven · What happens: order, not furnish, have, make · To what, where: cover, company, seven
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, seven), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cover | det |
| 6 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 furnish | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 furnish | cc |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 furnish | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 furnish | advmod |
| 11 | furnish | furnish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ordered | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 furnish | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 case | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 case | det |
| 15 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 furnish | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 gold | case |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 case | nmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 others | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 others | det |
| 20 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 furnish | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
| 22 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 had | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | conj |
| 25 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 had | obj |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 made | advmod |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 had | xcomp |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 Fairies | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Fairies | det |
| 30 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 Fairies | nummod |
| 31 | Fairies | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 made | obl:agent |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the King | a cover | company | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary cover=Theme | |||
| 2 | not furnish | could | the King not said here | company | with a case of gold; as the others | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with case=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | King | seven | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | participle | seven not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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