The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 144
"It is, Madam," replied one of her officers who had by chance seen this girl, "It is the most ugly creature imaginable after the wolf, a slut who lodges at your farm, and minds your geese."
Who acts: cake, Madam, officers, chance, slut · What happens: be, reply, have, see, lodge, mind · To what, where: Madam, one, girl, ugly creature, farm, geese · 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 (cake, Madam, officers, chance), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Madam | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Madam | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Madam | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Madam | punct |
| 5 | Madam | Madam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Madam | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Madam | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 replied | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 officers | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 officers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 officers | acl:relcl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 chance | case |
| 16 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obl |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 chance | acl |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 girl | det |
| 19 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seen | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 creature | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 creature | punct |
| 22 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 creature | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 creature | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 creature | det |
| 25 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 26 ugly | advmod |
| 26 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 creature | amod |
| 27 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obl |
| 28 | imaginable | imaginable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 creature | amod |
| 29 | after | after | ADP | _ | 31 wolf | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 wolf | det |
| 31 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 imaginable | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 slut | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 slut | det |
| 34 | slut | slut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 creature | appos |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 lodges | nsubj |
| 36 | lodges | lodge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 slut | acl:relcl |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 farm | case |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 farm | nmod:poss |
| 39 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lodges | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 minds | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 minds | cc |
| 42 | minds | mind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 43 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 geese | nmod:poss |
| 44 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 minds | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 minds | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 minds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | cake | Madam | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Madam | one of Madam's officers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Madam's officers | by chance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | participle | chance not said here | this girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | cake | the ugly creature | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | lodge in a quote | present | a slut | your farm | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at farm=Location | ||||
| 7 | mind in a quote | present | your geese | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Theme |
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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