The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3, sentence 34
They made a magnificent entry into the capital city, she riding between her two children.
Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: make, ride · To what, where: magnificent entry, capital city
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, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 entry | det |
| 4 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 entry | amod |
| 5 | entry | entry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 8 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 city | amod |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 riding | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 riding | nsubj |
| 12 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 made | advcl |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 children | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 children | nmod:poss |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 children | nummod |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 riding | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | King | a magnificent entry | the capital city | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent entry=Material into city=Product | |||
| 2 | ride | gerund | Queen | between Queen's two children | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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