The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 188
He had soon reached his cottage, and casting down his faggot:
Who acts: load · What happens: reach, cast down · To what, where: cottage, faggot
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 (load), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | aux |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 reached | advmod |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 casting | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 casting | cc |
| 9 | casting | cast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 reached | advcl |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 casting | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 faggot | nmod:poss |
| 12 | faggot | faggot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 casting | obj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect | load | load's cottage | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme | |||
| 2 | cast down | gerund | load not said here | load's faggot | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faggot=Product |
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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