The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 22

He took then a resolution, that he might save his own life, to cut the Queen's throat; and going up into her chamber, with intent to do it at once, he put himself into as great a fury as he could possibly, and came into the young Queen's room with his dagger in his hand.

Who acts: child · What happens: take, save, cut, go up, do, put · To what, where: resolution, own life, throat, chamber, child, great fury

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 (child), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 resolution	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 resolution	det
5	resolution	resolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 save	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 save	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 save	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 save	aux
10	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 life	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 life	amod
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 save	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cut	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 cut	mark
16	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 save	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Queen	det
18	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 throat	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Queen	case
20	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cut	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 going	cc
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 took	advcl
24	up	up	ADV	_	23 going	advmod
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 chamber	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 chamber	nmod:poss
27	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 going	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 intent	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 intent	case
30	intent	intent	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 going	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 do	mark
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 going	xcomp
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 do	obj
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 once	case
35	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 do	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 put	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 put	nsubj
38	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
39	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 put	obj
40	into	into	ADP	_	44 fury	case
41	as	as	ADP	_	42 great	case
42	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 fury	amod
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 fury	det
44	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 put	obl
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 could	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 could	nsubj
47	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 put	advcl
48	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	47 could	advmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 came	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 came	cc
51	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
52	into	into	ADP	_	57 room	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 Queen	det
54	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 Queen	amod
55	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 room	nmod:poss
56	's	's	PART	_	55 Queen	case
57	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 came	obl
58	with	with	ADP	_	60 dagger	case
59	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 dagger	nmod:poss
60	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 came	obl
61	in	in	ADP	_	63 hand	case
62	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 hand	nmod:poss
63	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 dagger	nmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	child	a resolution			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resolution=Theme
2	save	might	child	child's own life			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
3	cut	to-infinitive	child not said here	the Queen's throat			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset throat=Product
4	go up	gerund	child not said here		Queen's chamber	with intent	tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	child not said here	throat			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	put	past	child	child	a great fury		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent himself=Goal
7	come	past	child not said here		the young Queen's room	with child's dagger in child's hand	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location

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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