The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 23
When she had done her work, she used to go into the chimney-corner, and sit down among cinders and ashes, which made her commonly be called Cinder-breech; but the youngest, who was not so rude and uncivil as the eldest, called her Cinderilla.
Who acts: wife, cinders · What happens: do, use, go, sit down, make, call · To what, where: work, chimney corner, cinders, wife, commonly · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wife, cinders), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 used | advcl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 work | nmod:poss |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 done | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 used | nsubj |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 used | xcomp |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 corner | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 corner | det |
| 14 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 corner | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 chimney | punct |
| 16 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sit | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sit | cc |
| 19 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 sit | compound:prt |
| 21 | among | among | ADP | _ | 22 cinders | case |
| 22 | cinders | cinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sit | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ashes | cc |
| 24 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 cinders | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 made | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 made | nsubj |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 cinders | conj |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 made | obj |
| 29 | commonly | commonly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 called | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 called | aux:pass |
| 31 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 made | parataxis |
| 32 | Cinder | cinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 breech | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Cinder | punct |
| 34 | breech | breech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 called | xcomp |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 youngest | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 youngest | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 youngest | det |
| 38 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 used | advcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 rude | punct |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 rude | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 rude | cop |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 rude | advmod |
| 43 | so | so | ADV | _ | 44 rude | advmod |
| 44 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 youngest | parataxis |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 uncivil | cc |
| 46 | uncivil | uncivil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 rude | conj |
| 47 | as | as | ADP | _ | 49 eldest | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 eldest | det |
| 49 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 44 rude | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 called | punct |
| 51 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 rude | conj |
| 52 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 Cinderilla | nmod:poss |
| 53 | Cinderilla | Cinderilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 called | xcomp |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | wife | wife's work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | use | past | wife | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | wife not said here | the chimney corner | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into corner=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | sit down | infinitive | wife not said here | cinders and ashes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among cinder=Location | ||||
| 5 | make | past | cinders and ashes | wife | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product | ||||
| 6 | call | infinitive · passive | commonly | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | not is | past | as the eldest; rude property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 9 | call | participle | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 10 | work | wife | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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