The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 24
"Do it, do it," said she stretching out her neck, "execute your orders, and then I shall go and see my children, my poor children, whom I so much and so tenderly loved," for she thought them dead ever since they had been taken away without her knowledge.
Who acts: Queen, I, your · What happens: do, say, stretch out, execute, go, see · To what, where: life, neck, orders, children, poor children · 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 (Queen, I, your), 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 | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Do | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Do | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stretching | nsubj |
| 11 | stretching | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 said | ccomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 stretching | compound:prt |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 neck | nmod:poss |
| 14 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stretching | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 execute | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 execute | punct |
| 17 | execute | execute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 stretching | conj |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 orders | nmod:poss |
| 19 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 execute | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 go | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 go | advmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 go | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 go | aux |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 see | cc |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 go | conj |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 children | nmod:poss |
| 29 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 see | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 children | punct |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 children | nmod:poss |
| 32 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 children | amod |
| 33 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 loved | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 much | punct |
| 35 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 much | obl |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 much | nsubj |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 much | advmod |
| 38 | much | much | ADV | _ | 42 loved | advmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 tenderly | cc |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 tenderly | advmod |
| 41 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 much | conj |
| 42 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 go | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 loved | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 loved | punct |
| 45 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 47 thought | mark |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 thought | nsubj |
| 47 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 loved | advcl |
| 48 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 thought | obj |
| 49 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 thought | xcomp |
| 50 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 49 dead | advmod |
| 51 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 55 taken | mark |
| 52 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 taken | nsubj |
| 53 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 taken | aux |
| 54 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 55 taken | aux:pass |
| 55 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 thought | ccomp |
| 56 | away | away | ADV | _ | 55 taken | advmod |
| 57 | without | without | ADP | _ | 59 knowledge | case |
| 58 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 59 knowledge | nmod:poss |
| 59 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 taken | obl |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | infinitive | life | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | infinitive | life | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | stretch out | gerund | Queen | Queen's neck | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient | ||||
| 5 | execute in a quote | infinitive | Queen not said here | your orders | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient | ||||
| 6 | go in a quote | shall | I | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | see in a quote | infinitive | I not said here | my children | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | love in a quote | participle · passive | my poor children | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | think speech: other | past | Queen | orders = order | dead property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 10 | take away | past · perfect · passive | orders = order | without Queen's knowledge; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 11 | order in a quote | your | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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