The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 88

To be sure, the wolves of the forest will devour us to-night, if you refuse us to lie here; and so, we would rather the gentleman should eat us.

Who acts: wolves, you, gentleman · What happens: be, devour, refuse, not lie, eat · To what, where: us

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 (wolves, you, gentleman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg29021:493): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 sure	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 devour	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wolves	det
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 devour	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wolves	nmod
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 devour	aux
11	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 devour	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 night	case
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 to	punct
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 devour	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 refuse	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 refuse	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 refuse	nsubj
19	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 devour	advcl
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 refuse	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 lie	mark
22	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 refuse	xcomp
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 lie	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 rather	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 rather	cc
26	so	so	ADV	_	30 rather	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 rather	punct
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 rather	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 rather	aux
30	rather	rather	ADV	_	11 devour	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 gentleman	det
32	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 eat	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 eat	aux
34	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 rather	ccomp
35	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 eat	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 devour	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive	the wolves of the forest not said here				sure property	tree rules
2	devour	future	the wolves of the forest	us		night		vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient
3	refuse a condition, not said to happen	present	you	us				tree rules
4	not lie	to-infinitive	you not said here		here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	eat	should	the gentleman	us				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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