The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 9
The poor man knowing very well that he must not play tricks with Ogresses, took his great knife and went up into little Aurora's chamber.
Who acts: poor man, man · What happens: know, not play, take, go up · To what, where: tricks, great knife, chamber
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 (poor man, man), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | nsubj |
| 4 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 man | acl |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 knowing | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 play | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 play | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 play | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 play | advmod |
| 11 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 knowing | advcl |
| 12 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 play | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Ogresses | case |
| 14 | Ogresses | ogress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 play | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 knife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 knife | amod |
| 19 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 chamber | case |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Aurora | amod |
| 25 | Aurora | Aurora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Aurora | case |
| 27 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | the poor man not said here | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not play | must | man | tricks | with Ogresses | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent trick=Theme with ogress=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | take | past | the poor man | man's great knife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go up | past | the poor man not said here | little Aurora's chamber | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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