The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 157
These folks affirm, that they were very well assured of this, and the more, as having drank and eaten often at the faggot-maker's house.
Who acts: folks · What happens: affirm, assure, have, eat · To what, where: folks, drank, house
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 (folks), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 folks | det |
| 2 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 affirm | nsubj |
| 3 | affirm | affirm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 assured | punct |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 assured | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 assured | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 assured | aux:pass |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 well | advmod |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 assured | advmod |
| 10 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 affirm | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 this | case |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 assured | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 more | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 more | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 more | det |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 assured | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 having | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 having | mark |
| 19 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 assured | advcl |
| 20 | drank | drank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 having | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 eaten | cc |
| 22 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 having | conj |
| 23 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 eaten | advmod |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 maker | det |
| 26 | faggot | faggot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 maker | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 faggot | punct |
| 28 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 house | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 maker | case |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eaten | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 affirm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affirm | present | this folks | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | assure | past · passive | folks = folk | of this; well property | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of this=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | drank | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drank=Patient | |||||
| 4 | eat | participle | the faggot maker's house | often property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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