The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 146

As he was worn out, he fell asleep: and, after reposing himself some time he began to snore so frightfully, that the poor children were no less afraid of him, than when he held up his great knife, and was going to cut their throats.

Who acts: Ogre, poor children · What happens: wear out, fall, repose, begin, snore, be · To what, where: Ogre, time, great knife, throats

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, poor children), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 worn	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 worn	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worn	aux:pass
4	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 fell	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 worn	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 worn	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fell	xcomp
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 reposing	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 reposing	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 and	punct
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	14 reposing	mark
14	reposing	repose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 fell	advcl
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 reposing	obj
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reposing	obl:unmarked
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 began	nsubj
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 time	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 snore	mark
21	snore	snore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 frightfully	advmod
23	frightfully	frightfully	ADV	_	21 snore	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 afraid	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 afraid	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 children	det
27	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 children	amod
28	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 afraid	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 afraid	cop
30	no	no	ADV	_	31 less	advmod
31	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 afraid	advmod
32	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 reposing	advcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 afraid	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 held	punct
36	than	than	SCONJ	_	39 held	mark
37	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 held	advmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 held	nsubj
39	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 reposing	conj
40	up	up	ADP	_	39 held	compound:prt
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 knife	nmod:poss
42	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 knife	amod
43	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 held	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 going	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 going	cc
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 going	aux
47	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 fell	advcl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 cut	mark
49	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 going	xcomp
50	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 throats	nmod:poss
51	throats	throat	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 cut	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wear out	past · passive		Ogre			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
2	fall	past	Ogre			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	repose	gerund	Ogre not said here	Ogre	time		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme
4	begin	past	Ogre	some time not said here			tree rules
5	snore	to-infinitive	Ogre not said here			frightfully property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	the poor children			of Ogre; afraid, less property	tree rules
7	hold up	past	Ogre	Ogre's great knife			vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot knife=Theme
8	go	past · progressive	Ogre not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	cut	to-infinitive	Ogre not said here	children's throats			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset throat=Product

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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