The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 120

Curiosity made him put his eye to the keyhole.

Who acts: Curiosity, farm · What happens: make, put · To what, where: farm, eye

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 (Curiosity, farm), 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	Curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eye	nmod:poss
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 keyhole	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 keyhole	det
9	keyhole	keyhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Curiosity	farm					tree rules
2	put	infinitive	farm not said here	farm's eye				to the keyhole	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Goal

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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