The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 124

He was told that it was a scullion called Donkey-skin because of the skin which she always wore, and that she was so dirty and unpleasant that no one took any notice of her, or even spoke to her; she had just been taken out of pity to look after the geese.

Who acts: intent, scullion, skin, one · What happens: tell, be, call, wear, take, speak · To what, where: farm, scullion, Donkey skin, skin, notice, pity · 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 (intent, scullion, skin, one), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	aux:pass
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 scullion	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 scullion	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 scullion	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 scullion	det
8	scullion	scullion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	ccomp
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 scullion	acl
10	Donkey	Donkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 skin	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Donkey	punct
12	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	obj
13	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	16 skin	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 because	fixed
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 skin	det
16	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	obl
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 wore	obj
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wore	nsubj
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 wore	advmod
20	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 skin	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dirty	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dirty	cc
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 dirty	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 dirty	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dirty	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 dirty	advmod
27	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wore	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 unpleasant	cc
29	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dirty	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 took	mark
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 one	det
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 took	nsubj
33	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 unpleasant	advcl
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	35 notice	det
35	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 took	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 her	case
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 notice	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 spoke	punct
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 spoke	cc
40	even	even	ADV	_	41 spoke	advmod
41	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 took	conj
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 her	case
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 spoke	obl
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 taken	punct
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 taken	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 taken	aux
47	just	just	ADV	_	49 taken	advmod
48	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 taken	aux:pass
49	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 wore	conj
50	out	out	ADP	_	52 pity	case
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 pity	case
52	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 taken	obl
53	to	to	PART	_	54 look	mark
54	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 taken	advcl
55	after	after	ADP	_	57 geese	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 geese	det
57	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 look	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		farm					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	is a	past	intent	a scullion					tree rules
3	call	participle	a scullion not said here	Donkey skin				because the skin	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent skin=Recipient
4	wear	past	skin	the skin				always property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source
5	is	past	skin					dirty property	tree rules
6	be		skin not said here						tree rules
7	take	past	no one	any notice of skin					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
8	speak speech: other	past	no one not said here		skin				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
9	take out	past · perfect · passive		skin		pity			tree rules
10	look	to-infinitive					after the geese		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
11	notice			skin					nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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