The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], sentence 16

There came out of it a company of roasters, to the number of twenty, or thirty, who went to plant themselves in a fine alley of wood, about a very long table, with their larding pins in their hands, and skewers in their caps, who began to work, keeping time, to the tune of a very harmonious song.

Who acts: skewers · What happens: come out, go, plant, lard, begin, work · To what, where: company, roasters, fine alley

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 (skewers), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 came	expl
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 company	det
7	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl:unmarked
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 roasters	case
9	roasters	roaster	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 company	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 number	punct
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 number	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 number	det
13	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 twenty	case
15	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 number	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thirty	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 thirty	cc
18	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 plant	mark
23	plant	plant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 went	xcomp
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 plant	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 alley	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 alley	det
27	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 alley	amod
28	alley	alley	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 plant	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 wood	case
30	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 alley	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 table	punct
32	about	about	ADV	_	36 table	advmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 table	det
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 long	advmod
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 table	amod
36	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 alley	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 pins	punct
38	with	with	ADP	_	41 pins	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 pins	nmod:poss
40	larding	lard	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 pins	amod
41	pins	pin	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 plant	obl
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 hands	case
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 hands	nmod:poss
44	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 pins	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 began	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 began	cc
47	skewers	skewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 began	nsubj
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 caps	case
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 caps	nmod:poss
50	caps	cap	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 skewers	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 began	punct
52	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 began	nsubj
53	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 work	mark
55	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 began	xcomp
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 keeping	punct
57	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 work	advcl
58	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 keeping	obj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 tune	punct
60	to	to	ADP	_	62 tune	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 tune	det
62	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 keeping	obl
63	of	of	ADP	_	67 song	case
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	67 song	det
65	very	very	ADV	_	66 harmonious	advmod
66	harmonious	harmonious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 song	amod
67	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 tune	nmod
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past		a company of roasters	there		of ground; thirty obl; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	go	past						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	plant	to-infinitive		roasters = roaster	a fine alley of wood and a long table		with alley's larding pins in pins's hands	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient with pin=Instrument
4	lard	gerund						vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	begin	past	skewers in skewers's caps					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	work	to-infinitive	skewers in skewers's caps not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	keep	gerund	skewers in skewers's caps not said here			time	to the tune of a harmonious song	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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