The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 11

Upon which he began to weep, the great knife fell out of his hand, and he went into the back-yard, and killed a little lamb, and dressed it with such good sauce, that his mistress assured him she had never eaten anything so good in her life.

Who acts: man, great knife, mistress · What happens: begin, weep, fall, go, kill, dress · To what, where: hand, little lamb, knife, man, anything

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, great knife, mistress), 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 which	case
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 began	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 weep	mark
6	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fell	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 knife	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knife	amod
10	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	nsubj
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 hand	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 hand	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hand	nmod:poss
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
20	into	into	ADP	_	24 yard	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 yard	det
22	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 yard	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 back	punct
24	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 killed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 killed	cc
27	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 lamb	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lamb	amod
30	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 killed	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dressed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 dressed	cc
33	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 dressed	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 sauce	case
36	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 sauce	amod
37	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 sauce	amod
38	sauce	sauce	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dressed	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 assured	punct
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 assured	mark
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 mistress	nmod:poss
42	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 assured	nsubj
43	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 dressed	conj
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 assured	iobj
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 eaten	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 eaten	aux
47	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	48 eaten	advmod
48	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 assured	ccomp
49	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	48 eaten	obj
50	so	so	ADV	_	51 good	advmod
51	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 anything	amod
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 life	case
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 life	nmod:poss
54	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 good	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	man					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	weep	to-infinitive	man not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	the great knife			man's hand		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out hand=Location
4	go	past	man				into the back yard	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into yard=Initial_Location
5	kill	past	man not said here	a little lamb				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme
6	dress	past		knife			with such good sauce	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	assure	past	man's mistress		man			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
8	not eat	past · perfect	mistress	anything				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient

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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