The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 104
She was put into a recess in the kitchen where for the first days she was subjected to the coarse jokes of the men-servants, so dirty and unpleasant did the donkey-skin make her appear.
Who acts: dirty, Princess, men · What happens: put, subject, do, make, appear, joke · To what, where: Princess, recess, donkey skin
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 (dirty, Princess, men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux:pass |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 recess | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 recess | det |
| 6 | recess | recess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 kitchen | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kitchen | det |
| 9 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 subjected | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 days | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 days | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 days | amod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 subjected | obl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 subjected | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 subjected | aux:pass |
| 17 | subjected | subject | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 kitchen | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 jokes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 jokes | det |
| 20 | coarse | coarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 jokes | amod |
| 21 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 subjected | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 men | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 men | det |
| 24 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 jokes | nmod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 servants | punct |
| 26 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 men | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dirty | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 dirty | advmod |
| 29 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 make | nsubj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 unpleasant | cc |
| 31 | unpleasant | unpleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 dirty | conj |
| 32 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 dirty | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 skin | det |
| 34 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 skin | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 donkey | punct |
| 36 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 did | obj |
| 37 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | parataxis |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 make | obj |
| 39 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 make | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | Princess | a recess | in the kitchen | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in kitchen=Destination | |||
| 2 | subject | past · passive | Princess | day | to the coarse jokes of the men and servants | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do | past | dirty not said here | the donkey skin | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | make | present | dirty | Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | appear | infinitive | Princess not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | joke | the men and servants | nom joke «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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