The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 74
They were now in great affliction, for the farther they went, the more they were out of their way, and were more and more bewildered in the forest.
Who acts: birds · What happens: be, go, bewilder · To what, where: great affliction, way, forest
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 (birds), 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 | 6 affliction | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 affliction | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 affliction | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 affliction | case |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 affliction | amod |
| 6 | affliction | affliction | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 went | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 farther | det |
| 10 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 went | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 affliction | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 more | det |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 went | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 way | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 way | cop |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 way | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 way | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 way | nmod:poss |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 more | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bewildered | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bewildered | cc |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 bewildered | aux |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 bewildered | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bewildered | cc |
| 27 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 bewildered | advmod |
| 28 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 went | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 forest | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 forest | det |
| 31 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bewildered | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 affliction | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | birds = bird | great affliction | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | past | birds = bird | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | birds = bird | birds's way | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bewilder | past · passive | birds = bird not said here | the forest | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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