The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 126

And saying these words, without more ado, he cut the throats of all his seven daughters.

Who acts: Hah · What happens: say, cut · To what, where: words, throats · 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 (Hah), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 saying	cc
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 cut	advcl
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saying	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ado	punct
6	without	without	ADP	_	8 ado	case
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 ado	amod
8	ado	ado	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saying	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cut	nsubj
11	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 throats	det
13	throats	throat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cut	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 daughters	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 daughters	det:predet
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 daughters	nmod:poss
17	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 daughters	nummod
18	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 throats	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	Hah not said here	this words				without more ado	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	cut	past	Hah	the throats of Hah's seven daughters					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throat=Product

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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