The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 134
She implored him with tears not to die, since their life depended on his.
Who acts: Queen, life · What happens: implore, not die, depend · To what, where: sorrow
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 (Queen, life), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 implored | nsubj |
| 2 | implored | implore | 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 implored | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 tears | case |
| 5 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 implored | obl |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 die | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 die | mark |
| 8 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 implored | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 depended | punct |
| 10 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 13 depended | mark |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 depended | nsubj |
| 13 | depended | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 implored | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 his | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 depended | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 implored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | implore | past | Queen | sorrow | with tears | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not die | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | depend | past | doctors's life | sorrow | 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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