The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 55

They would make a good feast of what we have left here; but then it was you, William, who had a mind to lose them; I told you we should repent of it: what are they now doing in the forest?

Who acts: children, we, feast, William, mind, I · What happens: make, leave, be, have, lose, tell · To what, where: good feast, you, mind, children, forest · 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 (children, we, feast, William), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 feast	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feast	amod
6	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 feast	nmod
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 left	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 left	aux
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 what	acl:relcl
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 left	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 you	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 you	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 you	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 you	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 you	cop
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 make	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 William	punct
20	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 you	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 William	acl:relcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 mind	det
25	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 lose	mark
27	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 had	xcomp
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lose	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 told	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 told	nsubj
31	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 make	parataxis
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 told	iobj
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 repent	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 repent	aux
35	repent	repent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 told	ccomp
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 repent	obl
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	43 doing	punct
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	43 doing	obj
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 doing	aux
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 doing	nsubj
42	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 doing	advmod
43	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 make	parataxis
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 forest	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 forest	det
46	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 doing	obl
47	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	children = child	a good feast					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset feast=Product
2	leave	present · perfect	we			here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	feast	you			then		tree rules
4	have	past	William	a mind					tree rules
5	lose	to-infinitive	a mind not said here	children = child					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
6	tell speech: assert	past	I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
7	repent	should	we					of feast	tree rules
8	do	present · progressive	children = child			the forest	now		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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