The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 185
As for our woodcutter, he blithely corded his faggot, and throwing it over his shoulder, made for his home.
Who acts: Jupiter, throwing · What happens: cord, throw, make · To what, where: faggot, woodcutter, shoulder
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 (Jupiter, throwing), 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 | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 woodcutter | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 woodcutter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | woodcutter | woodcutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 corded | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 woodcutter | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 corded | nsubj |
| 7 | blithely | blithely | ADV | _ | 8 corded | advmod |
| 8 | corded | cord | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 faggot | nmod:poss |
| 10 | faggot | faggot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 corded | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 13 | throwing | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 made | csubj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 throwing | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 shoulder | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 17 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 throwing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 corded | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 home | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 home | nmod:poss |
| 22 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 corded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cord | past | Jupiter | Jupiter's faggot | as our woodcutter; blithely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | throw | gerund | woodcutter | Jupiter's shoulder | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over shoulder=Destination | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | throwing | for Jupiter's home | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for home=Asset |
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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