The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 71

Their father and mother brought them into the thickest and most obscure part of the forest; when, stealing away into a by-path, they there left them.

Who acts: father, children · What happens: bring, steal away, leave · To what, where: children, thickest part, path, pebbles

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, 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 mother	cc
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 father	conj
5	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brought	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	13 part	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 part	det
9	thickest	thick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 part	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 obscure	cc
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 obscure	advmod
12	obscure	obscure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thickest	conj
13	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 forest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 part	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 stealing	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 stealing	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stealing	punct
20	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 brought	advcl
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 stealing	advmod
22	into	into	ADP	_	26 path	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 path	det
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 path	case
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 by	punct
26	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stealing	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 left	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 left	nsubj
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 left	advmod
30	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stealing	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 left	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past	children's father and mother	children = child	the thickest part of the forest		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into part=Destination
2	steal away	gerund	children's father and mother not said here		a path	away property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	past	children = child	pebbles = pebble	there		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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