The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 143
The Queen, astonished at this strange name, asked who Donkey-skin might be.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: astonish, ask, be · To what, where: Queen, strange name · 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 (Queen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 astonished | punct |
| 4 | astonished | astonish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Queen | acl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 name | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 name | det |
| 7 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 name | amod |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 astonished | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Queen | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | Donkey | Donkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 skin | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Donkey | punct |
| 14 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 be | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 be | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 who | cop |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | astonish | participle | the Queen not said here | this strange name | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Queen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | 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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