The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 124
Then he went to the bed where the girls lay; and having found the boys' little bonnets: "Hah!" said he, "my merry lads, are you there?
Who acts: Ogre, girls, little bonnets, you · What happens: go, lay, have, find, say, be · To what, where: bed · 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 (Ogre, girls, little bonnets, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bed | det |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 lay | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girls | det |
| 9 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bed | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 13 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boys | det |
| 16 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bonnets | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 16 boys | case |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bonnets | amod |
| 19 | bonnets | bonnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 said | nsubj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Hah | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Hah | punct |
| 22 | Hah | Hah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 said | nsubj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 Hah | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Hah | punct |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | parataxis |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 said | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 he | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 lads | punct |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 lads | nmod:poss |
| 30 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 lads | amod |
| 31 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 he | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 there | punct |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 there | cop |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 there | nsubj |
| 35 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 said | parataxis |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Ogre | the bed | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | lay | present | the girls | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | find | past | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: ask | past | the boys's little bonnets | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | you | there property | tree rules |
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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