The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 52
He put bran and sow-thistle into his bag, and stretching himself out at length, as if he had been dead, he waited for some young rabbit, not yet acquainted with the deceits of the world, to come and rummage his bag for what he had put into it.
Who acts: Cat · What happens: put, stretch out, be, wait, not acquaint, come · To what, where: bran, bag, Cat, length
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bran | bran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thistle | cc |
| 5 | sow | sow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thistle | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 sow | punct |
| 7 | thistle | thistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bran | conj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 bag | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bag | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 waited | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 waited | cc |
| 13 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 waited | advcl |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 stretching | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 stretching | compound:prt |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 length | case |
| 17 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stretching | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dead | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 dead | mark |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 dead | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 dead | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 dead | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 dead | cop |
| 24 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stretching | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stretching | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 waited | nsubj |
| 27 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | parataxis |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 rabbit | case |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 rabbit | det |
| 30 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 rabbit | amod |
| 31 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 waited | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 acquainted | punct |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 acquainted | advmod |
| 34 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 35 acquainted | advmod |
| 35 | acquainted | acquaint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 waited | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 deceits | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 deceits | det |
| 38 | deceits | deceit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 acquainted | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 world | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 world | det |
| 41 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 deceits | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 come | punct |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 come | mark |
| 44 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 acquainted | conj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 rummage | cc |
| 46 | rummage | rummage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 come | conj |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 bag | nmod:poss |
| 48 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 rummage | obj |
| 49 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 what | case |
| 50 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 rummage | obl |
| 51 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 put | nsubj |
| 52 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 put | aux |
| 53 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 50 what | acl:relcl |
| 54 | into | into | ADP | _ | 55 it | case |
| 55 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 put | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Cat | bran and sow thistle | Cat's bag | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bran=Goal | |||
| 2 | stretch out | gerund | Cat not said here | Cat | length | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Cat | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wait | past | Cat | for some young rabbit | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not acquaint speech: other | participle | Cat not said here | yet | with the deceits of the world | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | come | to-infinitive | Cat not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | rummage | infinitive | Cat not said here | Cat's bag | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent bag=Location for what=Theme | ||||
| 8 | put | past · perfect | Cat | bag | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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