The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 53

Scarce was he lain down, but he had what he wanted; a rash and foolish young rabbit jumped into his bag, and Monsieur Puss, immediately drawing close the strings, took and killed him without pity.

Who acts: Scarce, rash, Monsieur · What happens: lie down, have, want, jump, draw, close · To what, where: Scarce, bag, strings, Monsieur

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 (Scarce, rash, Monsieur), 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	Scarce	Scarce	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lain	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lain	aux:pass
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lain	nsubj
4	lain	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 lain	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lain	conj
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 wanted	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wanted	nsubj
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	ccomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 jumped	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 rash	det
15	rash	rash	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jumped	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rabbit	cc
17	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rabbit	amod
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rabbit	amod
19	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rash	conj
20	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lain	conj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 bag	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 bag	nmod:poss
23	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jumped	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 close	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 close	cc
26	Monsieur	Monsieur	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 close	nsubj
27	Puss	Puss	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Monsieur	flat
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 drawing	punct
29	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	30 drawing	advmod
30	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 close	nsubj
31	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 jumped	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 strings	det
33	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 close	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 took	punct
35	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 jumped	parataxis
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 killed	cc
37	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 took	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 killed	obj
39	without	without	ADP	_	40 pity	case
40	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 killed	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	past · passive		Scarce			tree rules
2	have	past	Scarce				tree rules
3	want	past	Scarce				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
4	jump	past	a rash and foolish young rabbit		Scarce's bag		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bag=Destination
5	draw	gerund				immediately property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	close	infinitive	Monsieur	the strings			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient
7	take	past					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	kill	past		Monsieur		without pity	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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