The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 158

They aver, that, when Little Thumb had taken off the Ogre's boots, he went to Court, where he was informed that they were very anxious about a certain army, which was two hundred leagues off, and the success of a battle.

Who acts: folks, Little Thumb, Thumb, certain army · What happens: aver, take off, go, inform, be · To what, where: that, boots, Court, Thumb · 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 (folks, Little Thumb, Thumb, certain army), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 aver	nsubj
2	aver	aver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 that	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 aver	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 taken	punct
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 taken	mark
7	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Thumb	amod
8	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 taken	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 taken	aux
10	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 aver	parataxis
11	off	off	ADP	_	15 boots	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Ogre	det
13	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 boots	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Ogre	case
15	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 taken	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 taken	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 Court	case
20	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 informed	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 informed	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 informed	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 informed	aux:pass
25	informed	inform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 went	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 anxious	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 anxious	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 anxious	cop
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 anxious	advmod
30	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 informed	ccomp
31	about	about	ADP	_	34 army	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 army	det
33	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 army	amod
34	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 anxious	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 off	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 off	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 off	cop
38	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 hundred	compound
39	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 leagues	nummod
40	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 off	obl:unmarked
41	off	off	ADV	_	34 army	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 success	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 success	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 success	det
45	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 aver	parataxis
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 battle	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 battle	det
48	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 success	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 aver	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	aver	present	folks = folk	that			tree rules
2	take off	past · perfect	Little Thumb	the Ogre's boots			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme
3	go	past	Thumb		Court		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location
4	inform speech: other	past · passive		Thumb			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	is	past	folks = folk			about a certain army; anxious property	tree rules
6	is	past	a certain army			hundred leagues obl:unmarked; off property	tree rules

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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