The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 112
But she had to don her unworthy skin again before she returned to the farm.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: have, don, return · To what, where: unworthy 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 don | mark |
| 5 | don | don | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 skin | nmod:poss |
| 7 | unworthy | unworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 skin | amod |
| 8 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 don | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 don | advmod |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 returned | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 returned | nsubj |
| 12 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 don | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 farm | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 farm | det |
| 15 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 returned | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | don | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | Princess's unworthy skin | again | vn simple_dressing-41.3.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | |||
| 3 | return | past | Princess | to the farm result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to farm=Result |
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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