The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 127
He was full of regret that he had not knocked at the door, and promised himself that he would not fail to do so next time.
Who acts: farm · What happens: be, not knock, promise, not fail, do · To what, where: farm, door
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 full | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | cop |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 regret | case |
| 5 | regret | regret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 full | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 knocked | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knocked | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 knocked | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 knocked | advmod |
| 10 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 full | advcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knocked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 promised | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 promised | cc |
| 16 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 promised | obj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 fail | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fail | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 fail | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 fail | advmod |
| 22 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 promised | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 fail | xcomp |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 next | advmod |
| 26 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 time | amod |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | farm | of regret; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not knock | past · perfect · passive | farm | the door | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme at door=Destination | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | farm not said here | farm | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not fail not said to happen | would | farm | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | farm not said here | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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