The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 100
Meanwhile the Princess walked far, far and even farther away; after a time she sought for a resting place, but although out of charity people gave her food, she was so dishevelled and dirty that no one wanted to keep her.
Who acts: Princess, people, one · What happens: walk, seek, give, be, want, keep · To what, where: food, Princess
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 (Princess, people, one), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 4 walked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 walked | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 far | punct |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 walked | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 away | cc |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 farther | advmod |
| 10 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 away | advmod |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 far | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 sought | punct |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sought | obl |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sought | nsubj |
| 17 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 place | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 20 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 place | compound |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sought | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 gave | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 gave | cc |
| 24 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 27 charity | case |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 charity | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 charity | case |
| 27 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gave | obl |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 gave | nsubj |
| 29 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | parataxis |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 gave | iobj |
| 31 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gave | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 dishevelled | punct |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 dishevelled | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 dishevelled | cop |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 dishevelled | advmod |
| 36 | dishevelled | dishevelled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 gave | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 dirty | cc |
| 38 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 dishevelled | conj |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 wanted | mark |
| 40 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 41 one | det |
| 41 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 wanted | nsubj |
| 42 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 dishevelled | advcl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 keep | mark |
| 44 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 wanted | xcomp |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 keep | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the Princess | far, meanwhile property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seek | past | Princess | time | for a resting place | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for place=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | past | people | food | Princess | although charity | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient food=Theme | ||
| 4 | is | past | Princess | dishevelled property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | Princess not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | want | past | no one | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | no one not said here | Princess | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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