The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3, sentence 1
And now the King and the Queen, having kissed their dear child without waking her, went out of the palace, and put forth a proclamation, that nobody should dare to come near it.
Who acts: King, nobody · What happens: kiss, wake, go out, put, dare, come · To what, where: dear child, child, King, palace, proclamation
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, nobody), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 King | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Queen | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kissed | punct |
| 9 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 kissed | aux |
| 10 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 King | acl:relcl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 child | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 child | amod |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kissed | obj |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 waking | mark |
| 15 | waking | wake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 kissed | advcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 waking | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 put | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 put | cc |
| 25 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 went | conj |
| 26 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 28 proclamation | advmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 proclamation | det |
| 28 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 dare | punct |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 dare | mark |
| 31 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 33 dare | nsubj |
| 32 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 dare | aux |
| 33 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 put | parataxis |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 come | mark |
| 35 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 dare | xcomp |
| 36 | near | near | ADP | _ | 37 it | case |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 come | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | gerund · perfect | the King and the Queen not said here | King's dear child | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | wake | gerund | the King and the Queen not said here | child | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | the King and the Queen | the palace | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | put | participle | a proclamation | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | dare | should | nobody | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | come | to-infinitive | nobody not said here | proclamation | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near it=Location |
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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