The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 179
"My lord," he said, "forget my foolish speech; heed not my wishes, but cease thy thundering!"
Who acts: fortune, my · What happens: say, forget, cease, speak, wish · To what, where: heed, foolish speech, thundering · 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, my), 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 | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lord | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 forget | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 forget | punct |
| 10 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 speech | nmod:poss |
| 12 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 speech | amod |
| 13 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forget | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 heed | punct |
| 15 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 wishes | advmod |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 heed | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cease | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 cease | cc |
| 21 | cease | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 22 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 thundering | nmod:poss |
| 23 | thundering | thundering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cease | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 cease | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 cease | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | fortune | heed my wishes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | forget in a quote | infinitive | my foolish speech | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cease in a quote | present | thy thundering | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality thundering=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | speak in a quote | my | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | wish in a quote | my | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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