The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 123
It was with difficulty that he withdrew from this gloomy little alley, intent on discovering who the inmate of the tiny room might be.
Who acts: figure, farm, intent · What happens: be, withdraw, discover, inmate · To what, where: difficulty, gloomy little alley
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 (figure, farm, intent), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 difficulty | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 difficulty | cop |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 difficulty | case |
| 4 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 withdrew | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 withdrew | nsubj |
| 7 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 difficulty | acl:relcl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 alley | case |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 alley | nsubj |
| 10 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 alley | amod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 alley | amod |
| 12 | alley | alley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 withdrew | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 intent | punct |
| 14 | intent | intent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 be | nsubj |
| 15 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 16 discovering | mark |
| 16 | discovering | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 intent | acl |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 inmate | nsubj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 inmate | det |
| 19 | inmate | inmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 discovering | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 room | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 room | det |
| 22 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 room | amod |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 inmate | nmod |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 be | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 alley | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 difficulty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | figure | with difficulty | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | withdraw | past | farm | difficulty not said here | gloomy little alley | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Theme from alley=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | discover | gerund | intent not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | inmate | of the tiny room | tree rules |
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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