The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 99

"Ah!" said he, "I see how thou would'st cheat me, thou cursed woman; I know not why I do not eat up thee too; but it is well for thee that thou art a tough old carrion.

Who acts: Ogre, thou, I, bed · What happens: say, see, cheat, curse, not know, not eat up · To what, where: me, woman, thee · 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 (Ogre, thou, I, bed), 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 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 cheat	advmod
12	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 cheat	nsubj
13	would'st	would'	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 cheat	nsubj
14	cheat	cheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 see	xcomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 cheat	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cursed	punct
17	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 cursed	nsubj
18	cursed	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cursed	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
22	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 cursed	ccomp
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 know	advmod
24	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	28 eat	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 eat	nsubj
26	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 eat	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 eat	advmod
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 know	ccomp
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 eat	compound:prt
30	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 eat	obj
31	too	too	ADV	_	28 eat	advmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 art	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 art	cc
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 thee	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 thee	cop
36	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 thee	advmod
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 thee	case
38	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	41 art	nsubj
39	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 thee	nmod:unmarked
40	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	41 art	nsubj
41	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 carrion	det
43	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 carrion	amod
44	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 carrion	amod
45	carrion	carrion	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 art	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see in a quote	present	Ogre			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	cheat in a quote	infinitive	thou	me		vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Source
4	curse in a quote	past	thou	woman		tree rules
5	not know in a quote	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	not eat up in a quote	present · do-support	I	thee		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient
7	is in a quote	present	bed		for thee; that nmod:unmarked; well 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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