The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 79
He came down, and, when upon the ground, he could see it no more, which grieved him sadly.
Who acts: Thumb · What happens: come down, see, grieve · To what, where: ground, Thumb
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 (Thumb), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grieved | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 grieved | cc |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 see | advmod |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ground | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 grieved | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 see | obj |
| 16 | no | no | ADV | _ | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 see | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grieved | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 grieved | nsubj |
| 20 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 grieved | obj |
| 22 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 20 grieved | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | Thumb | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | could | Thumb | ground | upon the ground | tree rules | |||
| 3 | grieve | past | Thumb | sadly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=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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