The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 33
"Ah!" cried out his wife, "and can'st thou thyself have the heart to take thy children out along with thee on purpose to lose them?"
Who acts: wife, can'st, heart · What happens: cry out, have, take out, lose · To what, where: heart, children, purpose · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wife, can'st, heart), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 cried | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 cried | compound:prt |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 12 | can'st | can'st | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | nsubj |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 can'st | obj |
| 14 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 heart | det |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 take | mark |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 have | xcomp |
| 20 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 children | nmod:poss |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 take | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 take | advmod |
| 23 | along | along | ADP | _ | 25 thee | case |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 thee | case |
| 25 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 take | obl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 purpose | case |
| 27 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 lose | mark |
| 29 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 take | advcl |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 lose | obj |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | scarce's wife | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | infinitive | can'st | the heart | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take out in a quote | to-infinitive | the heart not said here | thy children | purpose | along thee; out property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||
| 4 | lose in a quote | to-infinitive | the heart not said here | children = child | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
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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