The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 37
I forgot to tell you, that he came into the world with a little tuft of hair upon his head, which made them call him Riquet with the Tuft, for Riquet was the family name.
Who acts: I, child, little tuft, things, Riquet · What happens: forget, not tell, come, make, call, be · To what, where: you, world, child · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, child, little tuft, things), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 forgot | nsubj |
| 2 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 tell | mark |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 forgot | xcomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 forgot | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 tuft | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tuft | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tuft | amod |
| 16 | tuft | tuft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 hair | case |
| 18 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tuft | nmod |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tuft | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 made | nsubj |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 tuft | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 call | nsubj |
| 26 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 made | xcomp |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 call | obj |
| 28 | Riquet | Riquet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 call | xcomp |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 Tuft | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Tuft | det |
| 31 | Tuft | tuft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 call | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 name | punct |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 name | case |
| 34 | Riquet | Riquet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 name | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 name | cop |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 name | det |
| 37 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 name | compound |
| 38 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 call | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come | past | child | the world | with a little tuft of hair upon child's head | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | make | past | a little tuft of hair upon child's head | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | call | infinitive | things = thing | child | with the Tuft | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 6 | is | past | Riquet | for the family name | tree rules |
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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