The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 56

Alas! dear God, the wolves have, perhaps, already eaten them up: thou art very inhuman thus to have lost thy children."

Who acts: wolves, thou · What happens: have, eat up, be, lose · To what, where: wolves, lost children

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 (wolves, thou), 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	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	8 have	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 God	punct
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 God	amod
4	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 have	vocative
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolves	det
7	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eaten	punct
10	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	13 eaten	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eaten	punct
12	already	already	ADV	_	13 eaten	advmod
13	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 have	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eaten	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 eaten	compound:prt
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 inhuman	punct
17	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 inhuman	nsubj
18	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 inhuman	cop
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 inhuman	advmod
20	inhuman	inhuman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 have	conj
21	thus	thus	ADV	_	20 inhuman	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 have	mark
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 inhuman	advcl
24	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 children	amod
25	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 children	nmod:poss
26	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 have	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the wolves		dear God vocative	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	eat up	participle	the wolves not said here	wolves = wolf	perhaps property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	is	present	thou		inhuman, thus property	tree rules
4	have	to-infinitive	thou not said here	thy lost children		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
5	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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