The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3, sentence 36
He left the government of the kingdom to the Queen his mother, and earnestly recommended to her care his wife and children.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: leave, recommend, care · To what, where: government, wife
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 government | det |
| 4 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 kingdom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kingdom | det |
| 7 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 government | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Queen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Queen | det |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 recommended | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 recommended | cc |
| 15 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 16 recommended | advmod |
| 16 | recommended | recommend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 left | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 care | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 care | nmod:poss |
| 19 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 recommended | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wife | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 care | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 children | cc |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wife | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Prince | the government of the kingdom | to the Queen | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent government=Theme mother=Attribute | |||
| 2 | recommend | participle | Prince not said here | earnestly property | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | care | infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince's wife and children | tree rules |
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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