The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 174
Indeed, it was his lot to toil for little guerdon, and although he was young and happily married there were moments when he wished himself dead and below ground.
Who acts: woodcutter, fortune, moments · What happens: be, marry, wish · To what, where: fortune
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 (woodcutter, fortune, moments), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 8 toil | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 toil | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 toil | cop |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lot | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 toil | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 toil | mark |
| 8 | toil | toil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 guerdon | case |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 guerdon | amod |
| 11 | guerdon | guerdon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 toil | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 married | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 married | cc |
| 14 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 17 young | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 young | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 young | cop |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 married | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 married | cc |
| 19 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 20 married | advmod |
| 20 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 toil | parataxis |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 were | expl |
| 22 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 married | conj |
| 23 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 were | nsubj |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 wished | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 wished | nsubj |
| 26 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 married | conj |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 wished | obj |
| 28 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 ground | amod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 below | cc |
| 30 | below | below | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dead | conj |
| 31 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wished | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 toil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | woodcutter | for little guerdon; indeed, toil property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | fortune | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry | past | happily property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | be | past | moments | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wish | past | fortune | fortune | 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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