The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 95
Puss, who heard the noise of his Majesty's coach running over the drawbridge, ran out and said to the King:
Who acts: Puss, coach · What happens: hear, run, run out, say, noise · To what, where: noise, drawbridge, King · 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 (Puss, coach), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 noise | det |
| 6 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 coach | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 coach | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 coach | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Majesty | case |
| 11 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 noise | nmod |
| 12 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 coach | acl |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 drawbridge | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 drawbridge | det |
| 15 | drawbridge | drawbridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 running | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ran | punct |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 ran | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 King | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Puss | the noise of Puss's coach | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | Puss's coach not said here | the drawbridge | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over drawbridge=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | run out | past | Puss not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Puss not said here | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | noise | Puss's coach | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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