The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 89
Puss was so sadly terrified at the sight of a lion so near him, that he immediately got into the gutter, not without abundance of trouble and danger, because of his boots, which were ill-suited for walking upon the tiles.
Who acts: Puss, Ogre, boots · What happens: be, get, walk, sight · To what, where: sight, boots, gutter, tiles, lion
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 (Puss, Ogre, boots), 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 | Puss | puss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 terrified | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 terrified | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 terrified | advmod |
| 4 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 5 terrified | advmod |
| 5 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sight | det |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 terrified | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 lion | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lion | det |
| 11 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sight | nmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 him | advmod |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 terrified | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 got | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 got | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 got | nsubj |
| 18 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 19 got | advmod |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 terrified | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 gutter | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 gutter | det |
| 22 | gutter | gutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 abundance | punct |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 abundance | advmod |
| 25 | without | without | ADP | _ | 26 abundance | case |
| 26 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gutter | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 trouble | case |
| 28 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 abundance | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 danger | cc |
| 30 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 trouble | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 boots | punct |
| 32 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 35 boots | case |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 because | fixed |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 boots | nmod:poss |
| 35 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 got | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 suited | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 suited | nsubj |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 suited | cop |
| 39 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 suited | amod |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 ill | punct |
| 41 | suited | suited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 boots | parataxis |
| 42 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 43 walking | mark |
| 43 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 suited | advcl |
| 44 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 46 tiles | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 tiles | det |
| 46 | tiles | tile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 walking | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Puss | the sight of a lion | near Ogre; sadly, terrified property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | past | Ogre | Ogre's boots | the gutter and abundance of trouble and danger | immediately property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boot=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | is | past | Ogre's boots | suited property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | walk | gerund | Ogre's boots not said here | the tiles | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon tile=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | sight | a lion | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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