--- title: Francis Poulenc's best-known works are his piano suite Trois mouveme… — France · tree and pragmatics description: Francis Poulenc's best-known works are his piano suite Trois mouvements perpétuels (1919), the ballet Les Biches (1923), the Concert champêtre (1928) for harpsichord and orchestra, the opera Dialogues des Carmélites (1957) and the Gloria (1959) for soprano, choir and orchestra. 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Francis Poulenc's best-known works are his piano suite Trois mouvements perpétuels (1919), the ballet Les Biches (1923), the Concert champêtre (1928) for harpsichord and orchestra, the opera Dialogues des Carmélites (1957) and the Gloria (1959) for soprano, choir and orchestra. **Who acts:** best known works, Francis · **What happens:** know, be, work · **To what, where:** piano suite This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «France». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best known works, Francis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:France:564 # text = Francis Poulenc's best-known works are his piano suite Trois mouvements perpétuels (1919), the ballet Les Biches (1923), the Concert champêtre (1928) for harpsichord and orchestra, the opera Dialogues des Carmélites (1957) and the Gloria (1959) for soprano, choir and orchestra. 1 Francis Francis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 2 Poulenc Poulenc PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 4 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 works work NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 piano piano NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 suite suite NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 Trois Trois PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 mouvements mouvement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 compound _ _ 14 perpétuels perpétuel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 1919 1919 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 ballet ballet NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 21 Les Les PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 Biches Bich PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 1923 1923 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 Concert Concert PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 champêtre champêtre NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 1928 1928 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 harpsichord harpsichord NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 orchestra orchestra NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 opera opera NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 40 Dialogues Dialogues PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 41 des Des PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 Carmélites Carmélite PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 43 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 1957 1957 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 42 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 44 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 Gloria Gloria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 49 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 1959 1959 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 48 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 50 punct _ _ 52 for for ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 soprano soprano NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 55 choir choir NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 conj _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 57 orchestra orchestra NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** | present | Francis's best known works | Francis's piano suite and the ballet Les Biches and the Concert champêtre for harpsichord and orchestra and the opera Dialogues des Carmélites and the Gloria for soprano and choir and orchestra | | | | Trois mouvements perpétuels *nmod*; Francis *nmod:poss*; the ballet Les Biches *conj*; the Concert champêtre for harpsichord and orchestra *conj*; the opera Dialogues des Carmélites and the Gloria for soprano and choir and orchestra *conj* | tree rules | | 3 | **work** | | Francis | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: 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 English Wikipedia, «France», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0. - ← previous: [sentence 563](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/France/563/) - next →: [sentence 565](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/France/565/) - ↑ back to [France](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/France/)