The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 142

Know, my mother, that I wish Donkey-skin to make me a cake, and to have it brought to me when it is ready."

Who acts: you, I, cake · What happens: know, wish, make, have, bring, be · To what, where: mother, Donkey skin, cake, me

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 (you, I, cake), 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	Know	know	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Know	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wish	punct
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 wish	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 wish	nsubj
8	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Know	parataxis
9	Donkey	Donkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 skin	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Donkey	punct
11	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wish	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wish	advcl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 make	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cake	det
16	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 have	cc
19	to	to	PART	_	20 have	mark
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Know	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 have	obj
22	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 have	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 brought	obl
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 ready	advmod
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ready	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 ready	cop
28	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 brought	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Know	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	imperative	you not said here	my mother			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	wish	present	I	Donkey skin			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot skin=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive	I not said here	a cake	me		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary cake=Product
4	have	to-infinitive	you not said here	cake			tree rules
5	bring	participle	cake not said here		me		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to i=Destination
6	is	present	cake			ready property	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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