The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 109
The horrible donkey-skin which covered her from head to toe revolted her.
Who acts: horrible donkey skin · What happens: cover, revolt · To what, where: skin, head, 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 (horrible donkey skin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skin | det |
| 2 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 skin | amod |
| 3 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skin | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 donkey | punct |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 revolted | nsubj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 covered | nsubj |
| 7 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 skin | acl:relcl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 covered | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covered | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 toe | case |
| 12 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covered | obl |
| 13 | revolted | revolt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 revolted | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 revolted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past | the horrible donkey skin | skin | head | to toe | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Destination | ||
| 2 | revolt | past | the horrible donkey skin | Princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
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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