The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 135
The Ogre, fearing his wife would be too long in doing what he had ordered, went up himself to help her.
Who acts: Ogre · What happens: fear, be, do, order, go up, help · To what, where: wife, 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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Ogre | det |
| 2 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 long | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ogre | punct |
| 4 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Ogre | acl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fearing | obj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 long | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 long | cop |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 doing | mark |
| 12 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 long | advcl |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 doing | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ordered | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ordered | aux |
| 16 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 long | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 went | compound:prt |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 went | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 help | mark |
| 22 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 went | advcl |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 help | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | gerund | the Ogre not said here | Ogre's wife | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | would | the Ogre | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | gerund | the Ogre not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | order | past · perfect | Ogre | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go up | past | the Ogre not said here | Ogre | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | help | to-infinitive | the Ogre not said here | wife | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
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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