The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 5
"I will have it so," replied the Queen (and this she spake in the tone of an Ogress, who had a strong desire to eat fresh meat), "and will eat her with a Sauce Robert."
Who acts: Queen, Ogress · What happens: have, reply, eat, intonate · To what, where: clerk, strong desire, fresh meat, Madam, Ogress · 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 (Queen, Ogress), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Queen | det |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 spake | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spake | cc |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 spake | det |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 spake | compound |
| 16 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Queen | appos |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 tone | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tone | det |
| 19 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spake | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Ogress | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Ogress | det |
| 22 | Ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tone | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 had | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Ogress | acl:relcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 desire | det |
| 27 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 desire | amod |
| 28 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 eat | mark |
| 30 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 desire | acl |
| 31 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 meat | amod |
| 32 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 eat | obj |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 had | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spake | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 spake | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 eat | cc |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 eat | aux |
| 38 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | conj |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 eat | obj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 Sauce | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 Sauce | det |
| 42 | Sauce | sauce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 eat | obl |
| 43 | Robert | Robert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Sauce | appos |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | future | the Queen = queen | clerk | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | past | a Ogress | a strong desire | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | a Ogress not said here | fresh meat | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | ||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | future | the Queen not said here | Madam | with a Sauce | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 6 | intonate | a Ogress | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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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