The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 84

As she was eagerly telling her godmother whatever had passed at the ball, her two sisters knocked at the door which Cinderilla ran and opened.

Who acts: collation, two sisters, Cinderilla · What happens: be, pass, knock, run, open · To what, where: whatever, ball

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, two sisters, Cinderilla), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 telling	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 telling	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 telling	cop
4	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	5 telling	advmod
5	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 knocked	advcl
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 godmother	nmod:poss
7	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 telling	obj
8	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 passed	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 passed	aux
10	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 godmother	acl:relcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 ball	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ball	det
13	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 telling	punct
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sisters	nmod:poss
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 sisters	nummod
17	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 knocked	nsubj
18	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 door	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 door	det
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knocked	obl
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 ran	obj
23	Cinderilla	Cinderilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 ran	nsubj
24	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 knocked	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 opened	cc
26	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 ran	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	collation			eagerly, tell property	tree rules
2	pass	past · perfect · passive		whatever	the ball		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme at ball=Destination
3	knock	past	collation's two sisters			at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
4	run	past	Cinderilla				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Trajectory
5	open	past	Cinderilla not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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