The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 119
All this succeeded according to his desire; for the Ogre waking about midnight, and sorry that he deferred to do that till morning which he might have done over-night, threw himself hastily out of bed, and taking his great knife:
Who acts: this, Ogre · What happens: succeed, accord, wake, defer, do, throw · To what, where: that, morning, Ogre, bed, great knife
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 (this, Ogre), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 this | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 succeeded | nsubj |
| 3 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 desire | case |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 according | fixed |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 desire | nmod:poss |
| 7 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 succeeded | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ogre | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 Ogre | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Ogre | det |
| 11 | Ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 succeeded | obl |
| 12 | waking | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 Ogre | acl |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 midnight | case |
| 14 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 waking | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sorry | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sorry | cc |
| 17 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 succeeded | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 deferred | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 deferred | nsubj |
| 20 | deferred | defer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sorry | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 deferred | xcomp |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 do | obj |
| 24 | till | till | ADP | _ | 25 morning | case |
| 25 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 do | obl |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 done | obj |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 done | nsubj |
| 28 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 done | aux |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 done | aux |
| 30 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 morning | acl:relcl |
| 31 | over-night | over-night | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 done | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 threw | punct |
| 33 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 succeeded | parataxis |
| 34 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 threw | obj |
| 35 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 33 threw | advmod |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 bed | case |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 bed | case |
| 38 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 threw | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 taking | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 taking | cc |
| 41 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 succeeded | advcl |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 knife | nmod:poss |
| 43 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 knife | amod |
| 44 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 taking | obj |
| 45 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 41 taking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | past | this | accord Ogre's desire; for the Ogre | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | wake | gerund | the Ogre not said here | midnight | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | defer | past | Ogre | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | Ogre not said here | that | morning | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | do | might · perfect | Ogre | morning | over-night property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | throw | past | Ogre | bed | hastily property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme out bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 8 | take | gerund | this not said here | Ogre's great knife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | ||||
| 9 | desire | Ogre | nom desire «feeling 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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