The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 52
Her godmother scooped out all the inside of it, leaving nothing but the rind; which done, she struck it with her wand, and the pumpkin was instantly turned into a fine coach, gilded all over with gold.
Who acts: godmother · What happens: scoop out, leave, do, strike, turn, gild · To what, where: inside, nothing, pumpkin, fine coach
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 (godmother), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 godmother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scooped | nsubj |
| 3 | scooped | scoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 scooped | compound:prt |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 inside | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 inside | det |
| 7 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scooped | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 inside | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leaving | punct |
| 11 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 scooped | advcl |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 leaving | obj |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 rind | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rind | det |
| 15 | rind | rind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nothing | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 done | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 done | nsubj |
| 18 | done | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 struck | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 struck | nsubj |
| 21 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scooped | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 struck | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 wand | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 struck | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 turned | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 turned | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 pumpkin | det |
| 29 | pumpkin | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 turned | aux:pass |
| 31 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 32 turned | advmod |
| 32 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 struck | conj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 coach | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 coach | det |
| 35 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 coach | amod |
| 36 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 turned | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 gilded | punct |
| 38 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 coach | acl |
| 39 | all | all | ADV | _ | 40 over | advmod |
| 40 | over | over | ADV | _ | 38 gilded | advmod |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 gold | case |
| 42 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 gilded | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scoop out | past | Run's godmother | all inside of inside | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent inside=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | Run's godmother not said here | nothing | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | strike | past | godmother | inside | with Run's wand | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with wand=Instrument | |||
| 5 | turn | past · passive | the pumpkin | a fine coach | instantly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into coach=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | gild | participle | a fine coach not said here | with gold; over property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme |
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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