The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 21
The young Queen was turned of twenty, not reckoning the hundred years she had been asleep: her skin was somewhat tough, tho' very fair and white; and how to find in the yard a beast so firm, was what puzzled him.
Who acts: Queen, skin · What happens: turn, not reckon, be, find · To what, where: young Queen, beast
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 (Queen, skin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Queen | amod |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | aux:pass |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 twenty | case |
| 7 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 turned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reckoning | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 reckoning | advmod |
| 10 | reckoning | reckon | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 turned | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 years | det |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 reckoning | obj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asleep | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 asleep | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 asleep | cop |
| 17 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 reckoning | ccomp |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 tough | punct |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 skin | nmod:poss |
| 20 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tough | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 tough | cop |
| 22 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 23 tough | advmod |
| 23 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 asleep | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fair | punct |
| 25 | tho | though | SCONJ | _ | 28 fair | mark |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 fair | punct |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 fair | advmod |
| 28 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tough | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 white | cc |
| 30 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fair | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 find | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 find | cc |
| 33 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 find | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 find | mark |
| 35 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 turned | parataxis |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 yard | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 yard | det |
| 38 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 find | obl |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 beast | det |
| 40 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 find | obj |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 firm | advmod |
| 42 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 find | advcl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 puzzled | punct |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 puzzled | cop |
| 45 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 46 puzzled | nsubj |
| 46 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | parataxis |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 puzzled | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · passive | the young Queen | of twenty | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme of twenty=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not reckon | gerund | year | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | Queen | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Queen's skin | somewhat, tough property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | Queen's skin not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | find | to-infinitive | a beast | in the yard | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Topic | ||||
| 7 | is | past | puzzle property | tree rules |
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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