The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 58
Another time he went and hid himself among some standing corn, holding still his bag open; and when a brace of partridges ran into it, he drew the strings, and so caught them both.
Who acts: master, brace · What happens: go, hide, stand, hold, run, draw · To what, where: master, standing corn, bag, strings
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 (master, brace), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hid | cc |
| 6 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 hid | obj |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 corn | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 corn | det |
| 10 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 corn | amod |
| 11 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hid | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 holding | punct |
| 13 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 hid | advcl |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 bag | advmod |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bag | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 holding | obj |
| 17 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 holding | xcomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 drew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 drew | cc |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 ran | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 brace | det |
| 22 | brace | brace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ran | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 partridges | case |
| 24 | partridges | partridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 brace | nmod |
| 25 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 drew | advcl |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ran | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ran | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 drew | nsubj |
| 30 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 strings | det |
| 32 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 drew | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 caught | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 caught | cc |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 caught | advmod |
| 36 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 drew | conj |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 caught | obj |
| 38 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 caught | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | master | time | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | master not said here | master | some standing corn | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient among corn=Location | |||
| 3 | stand | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | hold | gerund | master not said here | master's bag | open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | |||
| 5 | run | past | a brace of partridges | bag | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination | ||||
| 6 | draw | past | master | the strings | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme | ||||
| 7 | catch | past | master not said here | strings = string | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary both=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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