The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 30

They were brought out accordingly, and the executioners were just going to throw them into the tub, when the King (who was not so soon expected) entered the court on horse-back (for he came post) and asked, with the utmost astonishment, what was the meaning of that horrible spectacle?

Who acts: executioners, King, utmost astonishment · What happens: bring out, go, throw, not expect, enter, come · To what, where: wolves, tub, King, court, horse back, meaning

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 (executioners, King, utmost astonishment), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	aux:pass
3	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 brought	advmod
5	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	3 brought	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 going	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 executioners	det
9	executioners	executioner	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 going	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 going	advmod
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 brought	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 throw	mark
14	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 going	xcomp
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 throw	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 tub	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tub	det
18	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 throw	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 entered	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 entered	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 King	det
22	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 entered	nsubj
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	29 expected	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 expected	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 expected	aux:pass
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 expected	advmod
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 expected	advmod
28	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 expected	advmod
29	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 King	acl:relcl
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 expected	punct
31	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 going	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 court	det
33	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 entered	obj
34	on	on	ADP	_	37 back	case
35	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 back	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 horse	punct
37	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 entered	obl
38	(	(	PUNCT	_	41 came	punct
39	for	for	SCONJ	_	41 came	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 came	nsubj
41	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 entered	conj
42	post	post	ADV	_	41 came	advmod
43	)	)	PUNCT	_	41 came	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 asked	cc
45	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 entered	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 astonishment	punct
47	with	with	ADP	_	50 astonishment	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 astonishment	det
49	utmost	utmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 astonishment	amod
50	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 asked	ccomp
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 meaning	punct
52	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	55 meaning	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 meaning	cop
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 meaning	det
55	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 astonishment	appos
56	of	of	ADP	_	59 spectacle	case
57	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	59 spectacle	det
58	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 spectacle	amod
59	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 meaning	nmod
60	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring out	past · passive		wolves = wolf		accordingly, out property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	go	past · progressive	the executioners				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	throw	to-infinitive	the executioners not said here	wolves = wolf		into the tub result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into tub=Result
4	not expect	past · passive		the King		soon property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	enter	past	the King	the court	horse back		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme court=Destination
6	come	past	King			post property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	ask speech: ask	past	the King not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a	past	the utmost astonishment	the meaning		of that horrible spectacle	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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