The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 49
"Do not thus afflict yourself, my good master; you have only to give me a bag, and get a pair of boots made for me, that I may scamper thro' the dirt and the brambles, and you shall see that you have not so bad a portion of me as you imagine."
Who acts: you, Cat · What happens: not afflict, have, give, get, make, scamper · To what, where: yourself, bag, Cat, pair, boots, thro
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 (you, Cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 afflict | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 afflict | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 afflict | advmod |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 afflict | advmod |
| 5 | afflict | afflict | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 afflict | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 master | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 master | nmod:poss |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 master | amod |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 yourself | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 afflict | conj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 give | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 have | xcomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bag | det |
| 19 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 get | cc |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 afflict | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pair | det |
| 24 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 boots | case |
| 26 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 pair | nmod |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 boots | acl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 made | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 scamper | punct |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 scamper | mark |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 scamper | nsubj |
| 33 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 scamper | aux |
| 34 | scamper | scamper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 get | conj |
| 35 | thro | thro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 scamper | obj |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 thro | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 dirt | det |
| 38 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 scamper | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 brambles | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 brambles | det |
| 41 | brambles | bramble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 dirt | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 see | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 see | cc |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 see | nsubj |
| 45 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 see | aux |
| 46 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 afflict | conj |
| 47 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 52 bad | mark |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 52 bad | nsubj |
| 49 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 bad | aux |
| 50 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 52 bad | advmod |
| 51 | so | so | ADV | _ | 52 bad | advmod |
| 52 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 portion | amod |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 portion | det |
| 54 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 see | obj |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 me | case |
| 56 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 54 portion | nmod |
| 57 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 59 imagine | mark |
| 58 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 59 imagine | nsubj |
| 59 | imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 see | advcl |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 afflict | punct |
| 61 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 afflict | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not afflict in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | yourself | thus property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | a bag | the Cat = cat | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bag=Theme | |||
| 4 | get in a quote | infinitive | a pair of boots | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pair=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | make in a quote | participle | boots not said here | for the Cat = cat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | scamper in a quote | may | the Cat = cat | thro | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | see in a quote | shall | you | a bad portion of me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer portion=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | imagine in a quote | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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