--- title: Au clair de la lune means "in the moonlight"; Pierrot is a sad clown… — Songs and rhymes · tree and pragmatics description: Au clair de la lune means "in the moonlight"; Pierrot is a sad clown with a white face, and prête-moi ta plume means "lend me your pen", an old feather pen. Who acts: Au la lune, Pierrot, moi. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Au la lune, Pierrot, moi), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:031-songs-and-rhymes.lesson:9 # text = Au clair de la lune means "in the moonlight"; Pierrot is a sad clown with a white face, and prête-moi ta plume means "lend me your pen", an old feather pen. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 031-songs-and-rhymes.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Au Au PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 2 clair Clair PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 4 la la ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 lune lune NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 moonlight moonlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 Pierrot Pierrot PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 clown clown NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 prête prête VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 26 moi moi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 ta ta NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 plume plume NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 29 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 lend lend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 32 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:obj 33 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 pen pen NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 39 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 pen pen NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Au la lune | the moonlight | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moonlight=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | present | Pierrot | a sad clown | | | | with a white face | tree rules | | 3 | **prête** | infinitive | Au la lune *not said here* | a old feather pen | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | moi | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **lend** *in a quote* | infinitive | moi *not said here* | your pen | Many people *= people* | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pen=Theme | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:french:031-songs-and-rhymes.lesson:9`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Songs and rhymes, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/31-songs-and-rhymes/8/) - next →: [Songs and rhymes, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/31-songs-and-rhymes/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/31-songs-and-rhymes/)