The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 49
The very moment the faggot-maker and his wife were got home, the lord of the manor sent them ten crowns, which he had owed them a long while, and which they never expected.
Who acts: lord, makers · What happens: get, send, owe, not expect · To what, where: moment, makers, ten crowns
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 (lord, makers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 moment | advmod |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maker | det |
| 5 | faggot | faggot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 maker | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 faggot | punct |
| 7 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wife | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 maker | conj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | aux:pass |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 got | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sent | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lord | det |
| 16 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sent | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 manor | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 manor | det |
| 19 | manor | manor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lord | nmod |
| 20 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | parataxis |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sent | obj |
| 22 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 crowns | nummod |
| 23 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sent | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 owed | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 owed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 owed | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 owed | aux |
| 28 | owed | owe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 crowns | acl:relcl |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 owed | obj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 while | det |
| 31 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 while | amod |
| 32 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 owed | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 expected | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 expected | cc |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 expected | obj |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 expected | nsubj |
| 37 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 38 expected | advmod |
| 38 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sent | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · passive | the moment | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the lord of the manor | makers = maker | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination crown=Theme | ||||
| 3 | owe | past · perfect · passive | ten crowns | while | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not expect | past | makers = maker | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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