The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 177
As he spoke these words there was a great noise of thunder, and Jupiter appeared before him wielding his mighty thunderbolts.
Who acts: fortune, Jupiter, thunder · What happens: speak, appear, wield, noise · To what, where: words, mighty thunderbolts · 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 (fortune, Jupiter, thunder), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 spoke | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spoke | obj |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 words | acl:relcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 noise | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 noise | amod |
| 10 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 thunder | case |
| 12 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 noise | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 appeared | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 appeared | cc |
| 15 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 appeared | nsubj |
| 16 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 17 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 19 wielding | mark |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wielding | nsubj |
| 19 | wielding | wield | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 appeared | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 thunderbolts | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 thunderbolts | amod |
| 22 | thunderbolts | thunderbolt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wielding | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | fortune | this words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | Jupiter | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wield | gerund | fortune | fortune's mighty thunderbolts | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thunderbolt=Theme | ||||
| 4 | noise | thunder | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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