The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 81
She went and sat down by her sisters, shewing them a thousand civilities, giving them part of the oranges and citrons which the Prince had presented her with; which very much surprised them, for they did not know her.
Who acts: collation, civilities · What happens: go, sit down, shew, give, present, surprise · To what, where: sisters, part, civilities, oranges, collation
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 (collation, civilities), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sat | cc |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 sat | compound:prt |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 sisters | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sat | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shewing | punct |
| 10 | shewing | shew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sat | advcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shewing | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 thousand | det |
| 13 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 civilities | nummod |
| 14 | civilities | civility | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shewing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 giving | punct |
| 16 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 shewing | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 giving | iobj |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 giving | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 oranges | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 oranges | det |
| 21 | oranges | orange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 part | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 citrons | cc |
| 23 | citrons | citron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 oranges | conj |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 presented | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Prince | det |
| 26 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 presented | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 presented | aux |
| 28 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 oranges | acl:relcl |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 presented | obj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 presented | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 surprised | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 surprised | obj |
| 33 | very | very | ADV | _ | 34 much | advmod |
| 34 | much | much | ADV | _ | 35 surprised | advmod |
| 35 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 part | conj |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 surprised | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 know | punct |
| 38 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 42 know | mark |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 know | nsubj |
| 40 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 know | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 know | advmod |
| 42 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 giving | advcl |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 know | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | collation | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit down | past | collation not said here | by collation's sisters | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by sister=Location | ||||
| 3 | shew | gerund | collation not said here | sisters = sister | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | gerund | collation not said here | part of the oranges and citrons | civilities = civility | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient part=Theme | |||
| 5 | present | past · perfect · passive | the oranges and citrons | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | surprise | past | collation not said here | part of the oranges and citrons | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer they=Result | ||||
| 7 | not know | past · do-support | civilities = civility | collation | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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