The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 65

While he was washing, the King passed by, and the Cat began to cry out, as loud as he could:

Who acts: Cat, King · What happens: wash, pass by, begin, cry out

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, King), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 washing	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 washing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 washing	aux
4	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 passed	csubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 washing	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 passed	nsubj
8	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	8 passed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Cat	det
13	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 passed	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 cry	mark
16	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 cry	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 loud	punct
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 loud	advmod
20	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cry	xcomp
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 could	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 could	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 loud	advcl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wash	past · progressive	Cat		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pass by	participle	the King		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	the Cat		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry out speech: express	to-infinitive	the Cat not said here	loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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