The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 86

The Ogre received him as civilly as an Ogre could do, and made him sit down.

Who acts: Ogre · What happens: receive, do, make, sit down · To what, where: Cat, Ogre

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 (Ogre), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Ogre	det
2	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 received	nsubj
3	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 received	obj
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 civilly	advmod
6	civilly	civilly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 received	xcomp
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 do	mark
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Ogre	det
9	Ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 civilly	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 received	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	obj
16	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	xcomp
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 sit	compound:prt
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	receive	past	the Ogre	Cat	civilly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	do	could	a Ogre			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	past	the Ogre not said here	Ogre		tree rules
4	sit down	infinitive	Ogre not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «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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