The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 70

When their father had given each of them a piece of bread for their breakfast, he fancied he might make use of this bread instead of the pebbles, by throwing it in little bits all along the way they should pass; and so he put it up into his pocket.

Who acts: father, each, children · What happens: give, piece, fancy, make, throw, pass · To what, where: use, little bits, way, pocket, bread

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 (father, each, children), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 given	mark
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 given	aux
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 fancied	advcl
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 piece	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 each	nmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 piece	det
10	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 bread	case
12	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 piece	nmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 breakfast	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 breakfast	nmod:poss
15	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 given	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fancied	nsubj
18	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 make	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 make	aux
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 fancied	ccomp
22	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 bread	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 bread	det
25	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 use	nmod
26	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	29 pebbles	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	26 instead	fixed
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pebbles	det
29	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 make	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 throwing	punct
31	by	by	SCONJ	_	32 throwing	mark
32	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 make	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 throwing	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 bits	case
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 bits	amod
36	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 throwing	obl
37	all	all	ADV	_	40 way	advmod
38	along	along	ADP	_	40 way	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 way	det
40	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 throwing	obl
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 pass	nsubj
42	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 pass	aux
43	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 way	acl:relcl
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 put	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 put	cc
46	so	so	ADV	_	48 put	advmod
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 put	nsubj
48	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fancied	conj
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 put	obj
50	up	up	ADP	_	48 put	compound:prt
51	into	into	ADP	_	53 pocket	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 pocket	nmod:poss
53	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 put	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 fancied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past · perfect	children's father			for children's breakfast	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for breakfast=Asset
2	piece		each			of bread	tree rules
3	fancy	past	father				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	make	might	father	use of this bread		instead the pebbles	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product
5	throw	gerund	father not said here	use	little bits	along the way	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bit=Destination
6	pass	should	children = child	the way not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
7	put up	past	father	use	father's pocket		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
8	use			this bread			nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

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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