The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 14
No sooner had the husband given voice to these words than the wish was straightway granted, and the long coil of black pudding appeared grafted to the angry dame's nose.
Who acts: husband, wish, long coil · What happens: have, give, be, grant, appear, graft · To what, where: husband, voice, words
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 (husband, wish, long coil), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 husband | det |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 husband | acl |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 words | det |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 given | obl |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 straightway | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wish | det |
| 13 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 straightway | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 straightway | cop |
| 15 | straightway | straightway | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 words | acl |
| 16 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 straightway | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 appeared | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 appeared | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 coil | det |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 coil | amod |
| 21 | coil | coil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 appeared | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 pudding | case |
| 23 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pudding | amod |
| 24 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 coil | nmod |
| 25 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 26 | grafted | graft | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 appeared | xcomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 nose | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 dame | det |
| 29 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dame | amod |
| 30 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 nose | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 dame | case |
| 32 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 grafted | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the husband | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | the husband not said here | voice | this words | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent voice=Theme to word=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is | past | the wish | this words not said here | straightway property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | grant | participle | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | appear | past | the long coil of black pudding | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | graft | participle | the long coil of black pudding not said here | to the angry dame's nose | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to nose=Co-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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