The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 121

He then went up, groping all the way, into his daughters' chamber; and came to the bed where the little boys lay, who were every soul of them fast asleep; except Little Thumb, who was terribly afraid when he found the Ogre fumbling about his head, as he had done about his brothers'.

Who acts: Ogre, little boys, Little Thumb · What happens: go up, grope, come, lay, be, find · To what, where: way, chamber, bed, soul, Ogre

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 (Ogre, little boys, Little Thumb), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 groping	punct
6	groping	grope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 way	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 groping	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 chamber	punct
11	into	into	ADP	_	15 chamber	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughters	nmod:poss
13	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 chamber	nmod:poss
14	'	's	PART	_	13 daughters	case
15	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 groping	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 bed	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bed	det
21	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 lay	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 boys	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 boys	amod
25	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lay	nsubj
26	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 came	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 soul	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 soul	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 soul	cop
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 soul	det
31	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lay	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 soul	nmod
34	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 asleep	advmod
35	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 soul	acl:relcl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 Thumb	punct
37	except	except	ADP	_	39 Thumb	case
38	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Thumb	amod
39	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 afraid	punct
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 afraid	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 afraid	cop
43	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	44 afraid	advmod
44	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Thumb	advcl
45	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	47 found	advmod
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 found	nsubj
47	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 afraid	advcl
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Ogre	det
49	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 found	obj
50	fumbling	fumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 found	advcl
51	about	about	ADP	_	53 head	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 head	nmod:poss
53	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 fumbling	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 done	punct
55	as	as	SCONJ	_	58 done	mark
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 done	nsubj
57	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 done	aux
58	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 afraid	ccomp
59	about	about	ADP	_	61 brothers	case
60	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 brothers	nmod:poss
61	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 done	obl
62	'	'	PUNCT	_	58 done	punct
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	Ogre			then		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	grope	gerund	Ogre not said here	all way	Ogre's daughters's chamber			vn touch-20 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Experiencer
3	come	past	Ogre not said here		the bed		except Little Thumb	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
4	lay	present	the little boys					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past		every soul			of boys = boy	tree rules
6	is	past	Little Thumb				afraid, terribly property	tree rules
7	find	past	Ogre	the Ogre				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ogre=Topic
8	fumble	gerund	Ogre not said here				about Ogre's head	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent about head=Location
9	do	past · perfect	Ogre				about Ogre's brothers	vn act-114-1 «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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