The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 145
The Ogre, who found himself much tired with his long and fruitless journey (for these boots of seven leagues extremely fatigue the wearer), had a great mind to rest himself, and, by chance, went to sit down upon the rock where these little boys had hid themselves.
Who acts: Ogre, chance, little boys · What happens: find, fatigue, have, rest, go, sit down · To what, where: Ogre, wearer, great mind, rock, boys
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, chance, little boys), 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 | 28 had | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Ogre | acl:relcl |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 found | obj |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 tired | advmod |
| 8 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 found | xcomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 journey | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 journey | nmod:poss |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 journey | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fruitless | cc |
| 13 | fruitless | fruitless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 long | conj |
| 14 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tired | obl |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 fatigue | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 boots | case |
| 17 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 boots | det |
| 18 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fatigue | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 leagues | case |
| 20 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 leagues | nummod |
| 21 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fatigue | obl |
| 22 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 23 fatigue | advmod |
| 23 | fatigue | fatigue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wearer | det |
| 25 | wearer | wearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fatigue | obj |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 fatigue | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ogre | punct |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 mind | det |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 mind | amod |
| 31 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 rest | mark |
| 33 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 had | advcl |
| 34 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 rest | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 went | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 went | cc |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 chance | punct |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 chance | case |
| 39 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 went | nsubj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 chance | punct |
| 41 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 had | parataxis |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 sit | mark |
| 43 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 went | xcomp |
| 44 | down | down | ADP | _ | 43 sit | compound:prt |
| 45 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 47 rock | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 rock | det |
| 47 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sit | obl |
| 48 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 52 had | advmod |
| 49 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 51 boys | det |
| 50 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 boys | amod |
| 51 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 had | nsubj |
| 52 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 rock | acl |
| 53 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 went | conj |
| 54 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 53 hid | obj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the Ogre | Ogre | tired property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 2 | fatigue | present | the wearer | for this boots; of seven leagues; extremely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wearer=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the Ogre | a great mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 4 | rest | to-infinitive | the Ogre not said here | Ogre | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past | chance | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | sit down | to-infinitive | chance not said here | the rock | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon rock=Location | ||||
| 7 | have | past | this little boys | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | hide | past | chance not said here | boys = boy | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||||
| 9 | journey | Ogre | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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