The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 18
This was hitherto all mighty well: but one evening this wicked Queen said to her clerk of the kitchen:
Who acts: This, wicked Queen · What happens: be, 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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 mighty | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mighty | cop |
| 3 | hitherto | hitherto | ADV | _ | 5 mighty | advmod |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 mighty | advmod |
| 5 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 mighty | advmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 mighty | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 evening | nummod |
| 10 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 Queen | nsubj |
| 12 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Queen | amod |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mighty | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 clerk | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 clerk | nmod:poss |
| 17 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 kitchen | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kitchen | det |
| 20 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 clerk | nmod |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 mighty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | all, hitherto, mighty, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wicked Queen | Queen's clerk of the kitchen | evening | 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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