The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 41

They were almost two days without eating, so much they were transported with joy; they broke above a dozen of laces in trying to be laced up close, that they might have a fine slender shape, and they were continually at their looking-glass.

Who acts: Cinderilla, two days, laces · What happens: be, eat, transport, break, try, lace up · To what, where: two days, Cinderilla, dozen, fine slender shape, looking glass

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 (Cinderilla, two days, laces), 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	5 days	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 days	cop
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 two	advmod
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 days	nummod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 eating	mark
7	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 days	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 transported	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADV	_	13 transported	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 transported	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 transported	aux:pass
13	transported	transport	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 days	acl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 joy	case
15	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 transported	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 broke	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 broke	nsubj
18	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 days	parataxis
19	above	above	ADP	_	21 dozen	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 dozen	det
21	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 broke	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 laces	case
23	laces	lace	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 dozen	nmod
24	in	in	SCONJ	_	25 trying	mark
25	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 laces	acl
26	to	to	PART	_	28 laced	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 laced	aux:pass
28	laced	lace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 trying	xcomp
29	up	up	ADV	_	30 close	advmod
30	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 laced	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 have	punct
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 have	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 have	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 have	aux
35	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 laced	parataxis
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 shape	det
37	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 shape	amod
38	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 shape	amod
39	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 have	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 glass	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 glass	cc
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 glass	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 glass	cop
44	continually	continually	ADV	_	49 glass	advmod
45	at	at	ADP	_	49 glass	case
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 glass	nmod:poss
47	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 glass	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 looking	punct
49	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 broke	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 days	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Cinderilla	two days			tree rules
2	eat	gerund	two days not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	transport	past · passive	two days not said here	Cinderilla		with joy	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	break	past	Cinderilla		a dozen of laces		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above dozen=Location
5	try	gerund	laces not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	lace up not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	laces not said here			close property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»
7	have	might	Cinderilla	a fine slender shape			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient
8	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
9	is	past	Cinderilla		Cinderilla's looking glass	continually property	tree rules

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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