The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 17
She had, by a former husband, two daughters of her own humour and they were indeed exactly like her in all things.
Who acts: woman, Cinderilla · What happens: have, be, humour · To what, where: former husband, things
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Cinderilla), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 husband | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 husband | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 husband | det |
| 6 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 husband | amod |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 daughters | punct |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 daughters | nummod |
| 10 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 husband | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 humour | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 humour | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 humour | amod |
| 14 | humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 daughters | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 her | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 her | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 her | cop |
| 18 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 21 her | advmod |
| 19 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 21 her | advmod |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 things | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 things | det |
| 24 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | woman | a former husband | all things | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | Cinderilla | like daughter; exactly, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | humour | woman | nom humour «feeling transitive»: poss=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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