The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 108

One day she was sitting near a clear fountain where she often repaired to bemoan her sad condition, when she thought she would look at herself in the water.

Who acts: Princess · What happens: sit, repair, bemoan, think, look, condition · To what, where: clear fountain, sad condition, water · 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 (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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sitting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	near	near	ADP	_	9 fountain	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fountain	det
8	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fountain	amod
9	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 repaired	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 repaired	nsubj
12	often	often	ADV	_	13 repaired	advmod
13	repaired	repair	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fountain	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 bemoan	mark
15	bemoan	bemoan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 repaired	xcomp
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 condition	nmod:poss
17	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 condition	amod
18	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bemoan	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 thought	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thought	nsubj
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 condition	acl:relcl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 look	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 look	aux
25	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 thought	ccomp
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 herself	case
27	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 look	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 water	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 water	det
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 look	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Princess		a clear fountain	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near fountain=Location
2	repair	past	Princess				often property	tree rules
3	bemoan	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	Princess's sad condition				tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	Princess					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	look	would	Princess		the water		at Princess	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at herself=Theme
6	condition		Princess					nom condition «state transitive»: poss=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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