The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 25

One might wonder how that the faggot-maker could have so many children in so little a time; but it was because his wife went nimbly about her business and never brought fewer than two at a birth.

Who acts: One, faggot maker, eldest · What happens: wonder, have, be, not bring · To what, where: many children, two, birth

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 (One, faggot maker, eldest), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 wonder	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 wonder	aux
3	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 wonder	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 have	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maker	det
7	faggot	faggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 maker	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 faggot	punct
9	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wonder	advcl
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 many	advmod
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 children	amod
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 have	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 time	case
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 little	advmod
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 time	amod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 went	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 went	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 went	cop
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 went	mark
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wife	nmod:poss
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wonder	parataxis
28	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	_	27 went	advmod
29	about	about	ADP	_	31 business	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 business	nmod:poss
31	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 brought	cc
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 brought	advmod
34	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 went	conj
35	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 two	advmod
36	than	than	ADP	_	35 fewer	fixed
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 brought	obj
38	at	at	ADP	_	40 birth	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 birth	det
40	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 brought	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	might	One					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	could	the faggot maker	many children		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	is	past	eldest = eld				about wife's business; go, nimbly property	tree rules
4	not bring	past	eldest = eld not said here	two	a birth			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent two=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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