The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 190
Make up the fire and spread the board, and let there be no stint.
Who acts: you, stint · What happens: make up, spread, let, be · To what, where: fire, board
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 (you, stint), 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 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Make | compound:prt |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fire | det |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Make | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 spread | cc |
| 6 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Make | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 board | det |
| 8 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spread | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 let | cc |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Make | conj |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 be | expl |
| 13 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 stint | det |
| 15 | stint | stint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 be | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | imperative | you not said here | the fire | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fire=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | spread | past | you not said here | the board | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location board=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | infinitive | no stint | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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