The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 38
He got up early in the morning, and went to the river side, where he filled his pockets full of small white pebbles, and then returned home.
Who acts: Thumb · What happens: get up, go, fill, return · To what, where: river side, pockets
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 (Thumb), 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 | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 got | compound:prt |
| 4 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 got | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 morning | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 morning | det |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 side | det |
| 13 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 side | compound |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 filled | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 filled | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 filled | nsubj |
| 18 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 20 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 filled | obj | |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 filled | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 pebbles | case |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pebbles | amod |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pebbles | amod |
| 25 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 full | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 returned | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 returned | cc |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 returned | advmod |
| 29 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 30 | home | home | ADV | _ | 29 returned | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | Thumb | morning | early property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | go | past | the river side | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to side=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | fill | past | Thumb | Thumb's pockets | full property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient | |||
| 4 | return | past | then | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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