The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 42

Their father and mother seeing them busy at their work, got from them by degrees, and then ran away from them all at once, along a by-way, thro' the winding bushes.

Who acts: mother, father, pockets · What happens: see, get, run away, work · To what, where: 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 (mother, father, pockets), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 mother	cc
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 father	conj
5	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 mother	acl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seeing	obj
7	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seeing	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 work	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 work	nmod:poss
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 busy	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 father	punct
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 got	obl
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 degrees	case
16	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 got	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ran	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ran	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 ran	advmod
20	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 got	conj
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 ran	advmod
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ran	obl
24	all	all	ADV	_	26 once	advmod
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 once	case
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 ran	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 way	punct
28	along	along	ADP	_	32 way	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 way	det
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 way	case
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 by	punct
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ran	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 thro	punct
34	thro	thro	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 way	conj
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	38 bushes	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bushes	det
37	winding	winding	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bushes	compound
38	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 thro	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	mother not said here	pockets = pocket		busy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	get	past	pockets's father and mother			from pockets = pocket; by degrees	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from they=Destination
3	run away	past	pockets's father and mother not said here		then	from pockets = pocket; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from they=Trajectory
4	work		pockets = pocket				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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