The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 141
He went out; and, having run over a vast deal of ground, both on this side and that, he came at last into the very road where the poor children were, and not above a hundred paces from their father's house.
Who acts: Ogre · What happens: go out, have, come, not be, deal · To what, where: run, vast deal, last, house, ground
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.
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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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 having | cc |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 having | punct |
| 7 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 having | obj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 deal | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 deal | det |
| 11 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 deal | amod |
| 12 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 having | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 ground | case |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deal | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 both | punct |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 deal | nmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 side | det |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 both | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 that | cc |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 both | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 last | case |
| 26 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 came | obl |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 road | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 road | det |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 road | advmod |
| 30 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 road | acl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 children | det |
| 33 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 children | amod |
| 34 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 where | nsubj |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 paces | cop |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 paces | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 paces | cc |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 paces | advmod |
| 39 | above | above | ADP | _ | 42 paces | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 hundred | det |
| 41 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 paces | nummod |
| 42 | paces | pace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 children | nmod |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 47 house | case |
| 44 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 father | nmod:poss |
| 45 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 house | nmod:poss |
| 46 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 45 father | case |
| 47 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 paces | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Ogre | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | Ogre not said here | run | a vast deal of ground both | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent run=Patient | |||
| 3 | come | past | Ogre | last | into the road | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into road=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | not is | past | children's father's house | above hundred paces | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | deal | ground | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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