The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 84
The woman seeing them so very pretty, began to weep, and said to them:
Who acts: woman · What happens: see, begin, weep, say · To what, where: brothers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 began | nsubj |
| 3 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 woman | acl |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seeing | obj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 pretty | advmod |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 pretty | advmod |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 3 seeing | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 woman | punct |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 weep | mark |
| 11 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 began | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the woman not said here | brothers = brother | pretty property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the woman | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | weep | to-infinitive | the woman not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the woman not said here | brothers = brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
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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