The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 10
"Enough! woman," he cried at last; "put a check upon thy froward tongue!
Who acts: husband · What happens: cry, put · To what, where: last, check, froward tongue · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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 | _ | 4 woman | punct |
| 2 | Enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Enough | punct |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 woman | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cried | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 check | det |
| 15 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 tongue | case |
| 17 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 18 | froward | froward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tongue | amod |
| 19 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | husband | last | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | put in a quote | infinitive | husband not said here | a check | thy froward tongue | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent check=Theme upon tongue=Destination |
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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