The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 91

As they began to be a little warm, they heard three or four great raps at the door; this was the Ogre, who was come home.

Who acts: wolves, this, Ogre · What happens: begin, be, hear · To what, where: three great raps, door, Ogre

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, this, Ogre), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 began	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	8 warm	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 warm	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 warm	obl:unmarked
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 began	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 warm	parataxis
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 raps	nummod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 four	cc
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 three	conj
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 raps	amod
16	raps	rap	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heard	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 door	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 raps	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 Ogre	punct
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 Ogre	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 Ogre	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Ogre	det
24	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 began	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 come	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 come	cop
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 Ogre	acl:relcl
29	home	home	ADV	_	28 come	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	wolves = wolf				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	to-infinitive	wolves = wolf not said here			a little obl:unmarked; warm property	tree rules
3	hear	past	wolves = wolf	three great raps	the door		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rap=Stimulus
4	is a	past	this	the Ogre			tree rules
5	is	past	the Ogre			come, home property	tree rules

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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