The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 26
They were very poor, and their seven children incommoded them greatly, because not one of them was able to earn his bread.
Who acts: makers, seven children, one · What happens: be, incommode, earn · To what, where: makers, bread
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 (makers, seven children, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg29021:447): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 poor | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 poor | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 poor | advmod |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 incommoded | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 incommoded | cc |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 children | nmod:poss |
| 8 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 children | nummod |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 incommoded | nsubj |
| 10 | incommoded | incommode | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 poor | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 incommoded | obj |
| 12 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 10 incommoded | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 able | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 able | mark |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 one | advmod |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 able | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 one | nmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 able | cop |
| 20 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 incommoded | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 earn | mark |
| 22 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | xcomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bread | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 earn | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 poor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | makers = maker | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | incommode | past | makers's seven children | makers = maker | greatly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | one of makers | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | earn | to-infinitive | one of makers not said here | Thumb's bread | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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