The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 12
He had at the same time taken up little Aurora, and carried her to his wife, to conceal her in the lodging he had at the end of the court yard.
Who acts: man · What happens: have, take up, carry, conceal · To what, where: same time, little Aurora, Aurora, wife, lodging, end
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 time | acl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 taken | compound:prt |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Aurora | amod |
| 10 | Aurora | Aurora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 carried | cc |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carried | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 wife | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 conceal | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 conceal | mark |
| 20 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 carried | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 conceal | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 lodging | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lodging | det |
| 24 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 conceal | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 lodging | acl:relcl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 end | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 end | det |
| 29 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 had | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 yard | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 yard | det |
| 32 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 yard | compound |
| 33 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 end | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | man | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take up | participle | the same time not said here | little Aurora | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument aurora=Destination | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | Aurora | man's wife | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to wife=Destination | ||||
| 4 | conceal | to-infinitive | Aurora | the lodging | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Patient in lodging=Location | ||||
| 5 | have | past | man | the lodging not said here | at the end of the court yard | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodging=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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