The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 106
She minded the sheep, and penned them up when it was necessary, and she took the geese out to feed with such intelligence that it seemed as if she had never done anything else.
Who acts: Princess, it · What happens: mind, pen up, be, take out, feed, seem · To what, where: sheep, jokes, geese, anything
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, it), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 minded | nsubj |
| 2 | minded | mind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sheep | det |
| 4 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 minded | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 penned | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 penned | cc |
| 7 | penned | pen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 minded | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 penned | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 penned | compound:prt |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 necessary | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 necessary | expl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 necessary | cop |
| 13 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 penned | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 minded | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 geese | det |
| 19 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 took | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 took | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 feed | mark |
| 22 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 took | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 intelligence | case |
| 24 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 intelligence | amod |
| 25 | intelligence | intelligence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 feed | obl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 seemed | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 seemed | nsubj |
| 28 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 feed | advcl |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 done | mark |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 done | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 done | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 done | aux |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 34 done | advmod |
| 34 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 seemed | xcomp |
| 35 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 34 done | obj |
| 36 | else | else | ADV | _ | 35 anything | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 minded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind | past | Princess | the sheep | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pen up | past | Princess not said here | jokes = joke | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Princess not said here | necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take out | past | Princess | the geese | out property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Theme | |||
| 5 | feed | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | with such intelligence | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | not do a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Princess | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
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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