The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 2
"I have a mind to eat little Aurora for my dinner to morrow."
Who acts: I · What happens: have, eat · To what, where: mind, little Aurora
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 (I), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mind | det |
| 5 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 eat | mark |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 mind | acl |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Aurora | amod |
| 9 | Aurora | Aurora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 eat | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 dinner | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eat | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 morrow | case |
| 14 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eat | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | I | a mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | little Aurora | for my dinner; to morrow | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aurora=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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