The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], sentence 1
"I see," replied Riquet with the Tuft, "that this proposal makes you very uneasy, and I do not wonder at it, but I will give you a whole year to consider of it."
Who acts: Riquet, proposal · What happens: see, reply, make, not wonder, give, consider · To what, where: you, proposal · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Riquet, proposal), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Riquet | Riquet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 Tuft | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Tuft | det |
| 10 | Tuft | tuft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 makes | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 makes | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 makes | mark |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 proposal | det |
| 15 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 makes | nsubj |
| 16 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 makes | obj |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 uneasy | advmod |
| 19 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 makes | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wonder | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wonder | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 wonder | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 wonder | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 wonder | advmod |
| 25 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 makes | conj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 wonder | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 give | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 give | cc |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 give | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 give | aux |
| 32 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 wonder | conj |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 give | iobj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 year | det |
| 35 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 year | amod |
| 36 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 give | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 consider | mark |
| 38 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 year | acl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 consider | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 makes | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | Riquet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Riquet | with the Tuft | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present | this proposal | you | uneasy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | |||
| 4 | not wonder speech: ask in a quote | present · do-support | Riquet | proposal | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | give in a quote | future | Riquet | you | year | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 6 | consider in a quote | to-infinitive | Riquet not said here | of proposal | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
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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