The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 102

The poor children fell upon their knees, and begged his pardon; but they had to do with one of the most cruel Ogres in the world, who, far from having any pity on them, had already devoured them with his eyes; he told his wife they would be delicate eating, when tossed up with good savoury sauce.

Who acts: poor children, children, cruel Ogres, Ogre · What happens: fall, beg, have, do, devour, tell · To what, where: knees, pardon, pity, children, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor children, children, cruel Ogres, Ogre), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	amod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 knees	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 knees	nmod:poss
7	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 begged	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 begged	cc
10	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 pardon	nmod:poss
12	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 begged	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 do	mark
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 one	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 do	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 Ogres	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Ogres	det
23	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	24 cruel	advmod
24	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Ogres	amod
25	Ogres	ogre	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 one	nmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 world	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 world	det
28	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Ogres	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 having	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 having	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 having	punct
32	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 having	advmod
33	from	from	SCONJ	_	34 having	mark
34	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 Ogres	acl
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 pity	det
36	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 having	obj
37	on	on	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 having	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 devoured	punct
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 devoured	aux
41	already	already	ADV	_	42 devoured	advmod
42	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 had	conj
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 devoured	obj
44	with	with	ADP	_	46 eyes	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 eyes	nmod:poss
46	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 devoured	obl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 told	punct
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 told	nsubj
49	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 wife	nmod:poss
51	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 told	iobj
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 delicate	nsubj
53	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 delicate	aux
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 delicate	cop
55	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 told	ccomp
56	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 delicate	advcl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 tossed	punct
58	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	59 tossed	advmod
59	tossed	toss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	55 delicate	conj
60	up	up	ADP	_	59 tossed	compound:prt
61	with	with	ADP	_	64 sauce	case
62	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 sauce	amod
63	savoury	savoury	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 sauce	amod
64	sauce	sauce	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 tossed	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the poor children			children's knees		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon knee=Location
2	beg speech: request	past	the poor children not said here	Ogre's pardon				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient
3	have	past	children = child					tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	children = child not said here				with one of the cruel Ogres in the world	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	gerund	the cruel Ogres in the world	any pity			on children = child; far property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
6	devour	past · perfect	children = child not said here	children = child			with Ogre's eyes	vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
7	tell speech: assert	past	Ogre		Ogre's wife			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient
8	is	would	children = child				delicate property	tree rules
9	eat	gerund	children = child not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	toss up	participle	children = child not said here				with good savoury sauce	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with sauce=Material
11	pardon		Ogre					nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=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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