The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 54

Being at a loss for a coachman, "I will go and see," says Cinderilla, "if there be never a rat in the rat-trap, that we may make a coachman of him."

Who acts: Cinderilla, we · What happens: be, go, see, say, not be, make · To what, where: loss, rat, rat trap, coachman · 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 (Cinderilla, we), 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	Being	be	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 coachman	csubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 loss	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 loss	det
4	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Being	obl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 coachman	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 coachman	det
7	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 coachman	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 coachman	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 see	cc
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 says	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 says	punct
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 coachman	conj
18	Cinderilla	Cinderilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 says	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rat	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 rat	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 be	mark
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 be	expl
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 rat	cop
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 rat	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 rat	det
26	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 says	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	31 trap	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 trap	det
29	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 trap	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 rat	punct
31	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rat	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 make	punct
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 make	mark
34	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 make	nsubj
35	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 make	aux
36	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 says	ccomp
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 coachman	det
38	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 make	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 coachman	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 make	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	gerund			a loss	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at loss=Location
2	go in a quote	future	Cinderilla			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see in a quote	infinitive	Cinderilla not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	present	Cinderilla			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not is a in a quote	infinitive		a rat	the rat trap	tree rules
6	make in a quote	may	we	a coachman of horse		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coachman=Product

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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