The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Had Reserved For Himself"], sentence 17
The Princess, all astonished at this sight, asked them who they worked for.
Who acts: Princess, skewers · What happens: ask, work · To what, where: skewers · 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 (Princess, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 astonished | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 astonished | advmod |
| 5 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Princess | amod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 sight | det |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 astonished | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Princess | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 worked | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 worked | nsubj |
| 14 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 worked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Princess | skewers = skewer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | work | past | skewers = skewer | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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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