The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 57
The Fairy made choice of one of the three, which had the largest beard, and, having touched him with her wand, he was turned into a fat jolly coachman, who had the smartest whiskers eyes ever beheld.
Who acts: Fairy, having, fat jolly coachman · What happens: make, have, touch, turn, behold · To what, where: choice, largest beard, Fairy, fat jolly coachman, smartest whiskers eyes
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 (Fairy, having, fat jolly coachman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 choice | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 three | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 three | det |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 three | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beard | det |
| 14 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 beard | amod |
| 15 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 touched | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 touched | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 having | punct |
| 19 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 touched | csubj |
| 20 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 touched | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 wand | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wand | nmod:poss |
| 24 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 touched | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 turned | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 turned | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 turned | aux:pass |
| 28 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 made | conj |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 coachman | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 coachman | det |
| 31 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 coachman | amod |
| 32 | jolly | jolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 coachman | amod |
| 33 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 turned | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 had | punct |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 had | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 coachman | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 eyes | det |
| 38 | smartest | smart | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 40 eyes | amod |
| 39 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 eyes | compound |
| 40 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 had | obj |
| 41 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 42 beheld | advmod |
| 42 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 eyes | acl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the Fairy | choice of one of the three | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Product | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the largest beard | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | touch | past | having | Fairy | with godmother's wand | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer with wand=Instrument | |||
| 5 | turn | past · passive | Fairy | a fat jolly coachman | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into coachman=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | have | past | a fat jolly coachman | the smartest whiskers eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 7 | behold | participle | the smartest whiskers eyes not said here | ever | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
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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