The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 74
"Good people, you who are mowing, if you do not tell the King, that the meadow you mow belongs to my lord Marquis of Carabas, you shall be chopped as small as mince-meat."
Who acts: Good people, King, meadow · What happens: mow, not tell, belong, chop · To what, where: King, meadow · 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 (Good people, King, meadow), 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 | _ | 3 people | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mowing | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 people | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 mowing | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 mowing | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mowing | aux |
| 8 | mowing | mow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tell | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 tell | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tell | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 tell | advmod |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 mowing | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 tell | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 belongs | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 belongs | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 meadow | det |
| 20 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 belongs | nsubj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 mow | nsubj |
| 22 | mow | mow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 meadow | acl:relcl |
| 23 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tell | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 lord | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 lord | nmod:poss |
| 26 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 belongs | obl |
| 27 | Marquis | Marquis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 lord | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Carabas | case |
| 29 | Carabas | Carabas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Marquis | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 chopped | punct |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 chopped | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 chopped | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 chopped | aux:pass |
| 34 | chopped | chop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 mowing | parataxis |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 small | case |
| 36 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 chopped | obl |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 meat | case |
| 38 | mince | mince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 meat | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 mince | punct |
| 40 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 chopped | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 chopped | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 mowing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mow in a quote | present · progressive | Good people | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | the King = king | the King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mow in a quote | present | the King = king | the meadow not said here | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meadow=Patient | ||||
| 4 | belong in a quote | present | the meadow | to my lord | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | chop in a quote | shall · passive | the King = king | as small; as mince meat | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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