The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 142
They espied the Ogre, who went at one step from mountain to mountain, and over rivers as easily as the narrowest kennels.
Who acts: children, Ogre · What happens: espy, go · To what, where: Ogre, mountain
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 (children, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 espied | nsubj |
| 2 | espied | espy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ogre | det |
| 4 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 espied | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Ogre | acl:relcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 step | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 step | nummod |
| 10 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 mountain | case |
| 12 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 mountain | case |
| 14 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rivers | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rivers | cc |
| 17 | over | over | ADV | _ | 18 rivers | advmod |
| 18 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 espied | obl |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 easily | advmod |
| 20 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 18 rivers | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 kennels | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 kennels | det |
| 23 | narrowest | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 kennels | amod |
| 24 | kennels | kennel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 easily | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 espied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | espy | past | children = child | the Ogre | rivers obl | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ogre=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go | past | the Ogre | mountain | at one step; to mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from mountain=Initial_Location to mountain=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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