The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 139

He threw then a pitcher of water upon his wife's face; and having brought her to herself:

Who acts: Ogre · What happens: throw, have, bring · To what, where: pitcher, face, wife

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 threw	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pitcher	det
5	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pitcher	nmod
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 face	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 face	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 wife	case
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 brought	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 brought	cc
15	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 brought	reparandum
16	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 brought	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 herself	case
19	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 brought	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	throw	past	Ogre	a pitcher of water		Ogre's wife's face	then	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent pitcher=Theme upon face=Destination
2	have	gerund						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	bring	past	Ogre not said here	wife	wife			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to herself=Destination

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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