The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 151
He went immediately to the Ogre's house, where he saw his wife crying bitterly for the loss of her murdered daughters.
Who acts: Fairy, wife · What happens: go, see, cry · To what, where: house, 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 (Fairy, wife), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Ogre | det |
| 6 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Ogre | case |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 saw | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 saw | xcomp |
| 16 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 15 crying | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 loss | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 loss | det |
| 19 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crying | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 daughters | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 22 | murdered | murdered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 daughters | amod |
| 23 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 loss | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Fairy | the Ogre's house | immediately property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | Fairy | Fairy's wife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | Fairy's wife not said here | for the loss of wife's murdered daughters; bitterly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for loss=Recipient |
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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