The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 120
"Let us see," said he, "how our little rogues do, and not make two jobs of the matter."
Who acts: us, Ogre, little rogues, matter · What happens: let, see, say, do, not make, job · To what, where: us, two jobs · 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 (us, Ogre, little rogues, matter), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 do | advmod |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 rogues | nmod:poss |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rogues | amod |
| 14 | rogues | rogue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 do | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 make | cc |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 make | advmod |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 jobs | nummod |
| 21 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 matter | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 matter | det |
| 24 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 jobs | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Ogre | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | our little rogues | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not make in a quote | infinitive | two jobs of the matter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset job=Product | |||||
| 6 | job in a quote | the matter | nom job «act intransitive»: of=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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