The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 93

Puss no sooner perceived this, but he fell upon him, and ate him up.

Who acts: Puss · What happens: perceive, fall, eat up · To what, where: this, 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 (Puss), 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	4 perceived	nsubj
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 sooner	det
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 perceived	advmod
4	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 perceived	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 fell	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 perceived	conj
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fell	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ate	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ate	cc
14	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 perceived	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ate	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 ate	compound:prt
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 perceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	Puss	this	soon property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	fall	past	Puss		upon Ogre	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
3	eat up	past	Puss not said here	Ogre		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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