The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 31
They sent for the best tire-woman they could get, to make up their head-dresses, and adjust their double-pinners,[3] and they had their red brushes, and patches from the fashionable maker.
Who acts: amends · What happens: send, get, make up, adjust, have · To what, where: 3, head dresses, double pinners, red brushes
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 (amends), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 woman | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 woman | amod |
| 6 | tire | tire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 woman | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 tire | punct |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sent | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 get | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 make | compound:prt |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 dresses | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dresses | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 head | punct |
| 19 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 make | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 adjust | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 adjust | cc |
| 22 | adjust | adjust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 get | advcl |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 pinners | nmod:poss |
| 24 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pinners | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 double | punct |
| 26 | pinners | pinner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 adjust | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 3 | punct |
| 28 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 29 3 | punct |
| 29 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 sent | obl |
| 30 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 29 3 | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 had | cc |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 had | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | conj |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 brushes | nmod:poss |
| 35 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 brushes | amod |
| 36 | brushes | brush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 had | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 patches | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 patches | cc |
| 39 | patches | patch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sent | obl |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 maker | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 maker | det |
| 42 | fashionable | fashionable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 maker | amod |
| 43 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 patches | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | amends = amend | 3 | patches from the fashionable maker obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | could | amends = amend | for the best tire woman | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for woman=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | make up | to-infinitive | amends = amend not said here | amends's head dresses | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dress=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | adjust | infinitive | amends = amend not said here | amends's double pinners | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pinner=Patient | ||||
| 5 | have | past | amends = amend | amends's red brushes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=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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