The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 152
"Your husband," said Little Thumb, "is in very great danger, being taken by a gang of thieves, who have sworn to kill him, if he does not give them all his gold and silver.
Who acts: husband, gang, thieves · What happens: say, be, take, swear, kill, not give · To what, where: great danger, Thumb, gold, thieves · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (husband, gang, thieves), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 husband | nmod:poss |
| 3 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 husband | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 husband | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 danger | parataxis |
| 7 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Thumb | amod |
| 8 | Thumb | Thumb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 danger | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 danger | case |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 great | advmod |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 danger | amod |
| 15 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 taken | punct |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 taken | aux:pass |
| 18 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 danger | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 gang | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 gang | det |
| 21 | gang | gang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taken | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 thieves | case |
| 23 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 gang | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sworn | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 sworn | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 sworn | aux |
| 27 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 thieves | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 kill | mark |
| 29 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 sworn | xcomp |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 kill | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 give | punct |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 give | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 give | nsubj |
| 34 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 give | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 give | advmod |
| 36 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 taken | parataxis |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 give | iobj |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 gold | det:predet |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 gold | nmod:poss |
| 40 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 give | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 silver | cc |
| 42 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 gold | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 danger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Your husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | great danger | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | gerund · passive | a gang of thieves | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | swear in a quote | present · perfect | thieves | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | kill in a quote | to-infinitive | thieves not said here | Thumb | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | husband | Thumb's gold and silver | thieves = thief | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient gold=Theme |
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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