The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 13
About eight days afterwards, the wicked Queen said to the clerk of the kitchen:
Who acts: wicked Queen · What happens: say · To what, where: clerk · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wicked Queen), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 eight | advmod |
| 2 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 afterwards | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 afterwards | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 7 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Queen | amod |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 clerk | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 clerk | det |
| 12 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 kitchen | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kitchen | det |
| 15 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clerk | nmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the wicked Queen | the clerk of the kitchen | afterwards property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to clerk=Recipient |
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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