The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 41

There was a miller, who left no more estate to the three sons he had, than his Mill, his Ass, and his Cat.

Who acts: miller · What happens: be, leave, have · To what, where: Cat, more estate, three sons, Mill

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 (miller), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 miller	det
4	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 left	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 left	nsubj
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 miller	acl:relcl
8	no	no	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 estate	amod
10	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 sons	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sons	det
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 sons	nummod
14	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 left	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sons	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Mill	punct
18	than	than	ADP	_	20 Mill	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 Mill	nmod:poss
20	Mill	Mill	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Ass	punct
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 Ass	nmod:poss
23	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Mill	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Cat	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Cat	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 Cat	nmod:poss
27	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	a miller	miller's Cat		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	past	a miller	more estate	the three sons		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent estate=Theme to son=Recipient
3	have	past	miller	miller's Mill			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=Patient

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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