The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 90

The Ogre's wife, who believed she could conceal them from her husband till morning, let them come in, and brought them to warm themselves at a very good fire; for there was a whole sheep upon the spit roasting for the Ogre's supper.

Who acts: wife, wolves, spit · What happens: believe, conceal, let, come in, bring, warm · To what, where: wolves, good fire, whole sheep · 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 (wife, wolves, spit), 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 Ogre	det
2	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Ogre	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 believed	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 believed	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 believed	nsubj
7	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 conceal	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 conceal	aux
10	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 believed	ccomp
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 conceal	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 husband	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 husband	nmod:poss
14	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conceal	obl
15	till	till	ADP	_	16 morning	case
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conceal	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 conceal	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
21	in	in	ADV	_	20 come	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 brought	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 brought	cc
24	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 believed	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 brought	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 warm	mark
27	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 brought	advcl
28	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 warm	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	33 fire	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 fire	det
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 good	advmod
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fire	amod
33	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 warm	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 sheep	punct
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 was	mark
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 was	expl
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 sheep	cop
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 sheep	det
39	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 sheep	amod
40	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brought	parataxis
41	upon	upon	ADP	_	43 spit	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 spit	det
43	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sheep	nmod
44	roasting	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 spit	acl
45	for	for	ADP	_	49 supper	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Ogre	det
47	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 supper	nmod:poss
48	's	's	PART	_	47 Ogre	case
49	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 roasting	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 believed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	the Ogre's wife					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	conceal	could	wife	wolves = wolf		morning	from wife's husband	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Patient from husband=Beneficiary
3	let	infinitive	wife not said here	wolves = wolf				tree rules
4	come in	infinitive	wolves = wolf not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bring	past	the Ogre's wife not said here	wolves = wolf				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	warm	to-infinitive	the Ogre's wife not said here	wolves = wolf	a good fire			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
7	is a	past		a whole sheep			upon the spit	tree rules
8	roast	gerund	the spit not said here				for the Ogre's supper	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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