The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 51
The faggot-maker sent his wife immediately to the butcher's.
Who acts: faggot maker · What happens: send · To what, where: wife, butcher
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 (faggot maker), 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 | 4 maker | det |
| 2 | faggot | faggot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 maker | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 faggot | punct |
| 4 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obj |
| 8 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 sent | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 butcher | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 butcher | det |
| 11 | butcher | butcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 butcher | case |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the faggot maker | father's wife | the butcher | immediately property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wife=Theme to butcher=Destination |
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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