The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 101
At length she came to a beautiful town, at the gate of which was a small farm.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: come, be · To what, where: length, small farm
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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 town | amod |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gate | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 gate | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gate | det |
| 12 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 farm | obl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 farm | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 farm | det |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 farm | amod |
| 18 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gate | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Princess | length | to a beautiful town; at the gate | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | a small farm | of the gate | 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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