The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Prince Took Up Most Carefully"], sentence 50

One day, as she retired into the wood to bewail her misfortune, she saw, coming to her, a little man, very disagreeable, but most magnificently dressed.

Who acts: queen, little man · What happens: retire, bewail, see, come, dress · To what, where: wood, misfortune, little man, queen, most

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 (queen, little man), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 retired	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 retired	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 retired	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 retired	nsubj
6	retired	retire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 wood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 retired	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 bewail	mark
11	bewail	bewail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 retired	advcl
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 misfortune	nmod:poss
13	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bewail	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 retired	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 coming	punct
18	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 saw	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 coming	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 man	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 disagreeable	punct
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 disagreeable	advmod
27	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dressed	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 dressed	cc
30	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 dressed	nsubj:pass
31	magnificently	magnificently	ADV	_	32 dressed	advmod
32	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 saw	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 retired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retire	past	queen			the wood	day		vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bewail	to-infinitive	queen not said here	queen's misfortune					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer misfortune=Stimulus
3	see	past	queen	a little man					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	come	gerund	a little man not said here		queen				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
5	dress	participle · passive		most				magnificently property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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