The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 31
No one dared to tell him; when the Ogress, all inraged to see what had happened, threw herself head-foremost into the tub, and was instantly devoured by the ugly creatures she had ordered to be thrown into it for others.
Who acts: one, Ogress, ugly creatures · What happens: dare, tell, see, happen, throw, foremost · To what, where: King, Ogress, tub, ugly creatures · 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 (one, Ogress, ugly creatures), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dared | nsubj |
| 3 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 tell | mark |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dared | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 threw | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 threw | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ogress | det |
| 10 | Ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 threw | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 inraged | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 inraged | advmod |
| 13 | inraged | inraged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Ogress | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 inraged | csubj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 happened | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 happened | aux |
| 18 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 see | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ogress | punct |
| 20 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dared | parataxis |
| 21 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 threw | obj |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 foremost | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 head | punct |
| 24 | foremost | foremost | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 threw | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 tub | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tub | det |
| 27 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 foremost | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 devoured | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 devoured | cc |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 devoured | aux:pass |
| 31 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 32 devoured | advmod |
| 32 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dared | conj |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 creatures | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 creatures | det |
| 35 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 creatures | amod |
| 36 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 devoured | obl |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 ordered | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 ordered | aux |
| 39 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 creatures | acl:relcl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 thrown | mark |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 thrown | aux:pass |
| 42 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 ordered | xcomp |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 it | case |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 thrown | obl |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 others | case |
| 46 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 thrown | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | past | no one | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | no one not said here | King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | throw | past | the Ogress | Ogress | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | ||||
| 6 | foremost | participle | the Ogress not said here | the tub | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | devour | past · passive | the ugly creatures | instantly property | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | order | past · perfect | Ogress | the ugly creatures not said here | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent creature=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 9 | throw not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the ugly creatures not said here | tub | for others | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into it=Result |
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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