The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 87
"Ah! dear Madam," answered Little Thumb (who trembled every joint of him, as well as his brothers) "what shall we do?
Who acts: Little Thumb, we · What happens: answer, tremble, do · To what, where: dear Madam, joint · 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 (Little Thumb, we), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Madam | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 Madam | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Madam | amod |
| 5 | Madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Madam | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Thumb | amod |
| 10 | Thumb | Thumb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 trembled | nsubj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 trembled | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 trembled | nsubj |
| 13 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 joint | det |
| 15 | joint | joint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trembled | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 joint | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 brothers | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 23 brothers | cc |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 as | fixed |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 brothers | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 23 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 trembled | appos |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 brothers | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 do | punct |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 do | obj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 do | aux |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 do | nsubj |
| 29 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 trembled | conj |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: ask | past | dear Madam | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tremble | past | Little Thumb | every joint of Ogre | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location joint=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | shall | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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