The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 27
Exceedingly was she delighted with her cruelty, and she had invented a story to tell the King, at his return, how ravenous wolves had eaten up the Queen his wife, and her two children.
Who acts: Exceedingly, Queen, return, child · What happens: be, invent, tell, eat up, return · To what, where: story, King, return, ravenous wolves · 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 (Exceedingly, Queen, return, 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 | Exceedingly | Exceedingly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 cruelty | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cruelty | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cruelty | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 invented | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 invented | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 invented | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 invented | aux |
| 12 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 delighted | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 invented | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 tell | mark |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 invented | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 return | punct |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 return | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 return | nmod:poss |
| 22 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wolves | punct |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 ravenous | advmod |
| 25 | ravenous | ravenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wolves | amod |
| 26 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 eaten | aux |
| 28 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 return | acl:relcl |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 eaten | compound:prt |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Queen | det |
| 31 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 eaten | appos |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 wife | nmod:poss |
| 33 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 eaten | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 children | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 children | cc |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 children | nmod:poss |
| 37 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 children | nummod |
| 38 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 delighted | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Exceedingly | with Queen's cruelty; Queen's two children obl; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | invent | past · perfect | Queen | a story | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | the King | child's return | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | |||
| 4 | eat up | past · perfect · passive | child's return not said here | ravenous wolves | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | return | child | nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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