--- title: There is no evidence that Marie Antoinette said "Let them eat cake";… — Kings, queens and emperors · tree and pragmatics description: There is no evidence that Marie Antoinette said "Let them eat cake"; a similar line about a great princess appears in a book by Rousseau written when she was a child of about ten living in Austria. Who acts: evidence, Marie, inches, similar line. 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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 (evidence, Marie, inches, similar line), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson:7 # text = There is no evidence that Marie Antoinette said "Let them eat cake"; a similar line about a great princess appears in a book by Rousseau written when she was a child of about ten living in Austria. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 019-kings-queens-and-emperors.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 Marie Marie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 Antoinette Antoinette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 similar similar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 19 about about ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 23 appears appear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Rousseau Rousseau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 30 when when SCONJ WRB _ 34 mark _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 advcl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 about about ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nmod _ _ 38 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 acl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Austria Austria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | no evidence | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Marie | no evidence *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive | inches *= inch* | cake | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient | | 5 | **appear** | present | a similar line about a great princess | | | a book by Rousseau | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in book=Location | | 6 | **write** | participle | | a book by Rousseau *not said here* | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** | past | line | a child | | | | of ten | tree rules | | 8 | **live** | gerund | a child *not said here* | | | Austria | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in austria=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. **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. 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