The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 115

They were not as yet over and above mischievous; but they promised very fair for it, for they already bit little children, that they might suck their blood.

Who acts: Ogresses · What happens: not be, be, promise, bite, suck · To what, where: little children, blood

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 (Ogresses), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 over	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 over	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 over	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	6 over	advmod
5	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 over	advmod
6	over	over	ADV	_	13 promised	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mischievous	cc
8	above	above	ADP	_	9 mischievous	case
9	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 over	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 promised	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 promised	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 promised	nsubj
13	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 fair	advmod
15	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 promised	xcomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fair	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bit	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 bit	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bit	nsubj
21	already	already	ADV	_	22 bit	advmod
22	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 promised	parataxis
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 children	amod
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bit	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 suck	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 suck	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 suck	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 suck	aux
29	suck	suck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 bit	parataxis
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 blood	nmod:poss
31	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 suck	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Ogresses = ogress		yet	over property	tree rules
2	be		Ogresses = ogress not said here				tree rules
3	promise speech: promise	past	Ogresses = ogress			fair property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	bite	past	Ogresses = ogress	little children			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
5	suck	might	Ogresses = ogress	Ogresses's blood			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blood=Theme

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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