The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3, sentence 33
But when the King was dead, which happened about two years afterwards; and he saw himself lord and master, he openly declared his marriage; and he went in great ceremony to fetch his Queen from the castle.
Who acts: King, Prince · What happens: be, happen, see, declare, go, fetch · To what, where: Prince, marriage, great ceremony, Queen, castle
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, Prince), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 dead | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 dead | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dead | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dead | cop |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 happened | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dead | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 two | advmod |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 12 years | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dead | conj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 saw | obj |
| 19 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 master | cc |
| 21 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lord | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 declared | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 declared | nsubj |
| 24 | openly | openly | ADV | _ | 25 declared | advmod |
| 25 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saw | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 27 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 declared | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 went | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 went | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 went | nsubj |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saw | parataxis |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 ceremony | case |
| 33 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 ceremony | amod |
| 34 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | obl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 fetch | mark |
| 36 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 went | advcl |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 Queen | nmod:poss |
| 38 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 fetch | obj |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 castle | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 castle | det |
| 41 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fetch | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Prince | Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | declare speech: other | past | Prince | Prince's marriage | openly property | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Attribute | |||
| 5 | go | past | Prince | great ceremony | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ceremony=Location | ||||
| 6 | fetch | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince's Queen | the castle | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent queen=Theme from castle=Source | |||
| 7 | marry | Prince | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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