The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 145

"It matters not," said the Queen; "my son, on his way home from the chase, has perchance eaten of her cakes; it is a whim such as those who are sick do sometimes have.

Who acts: It, Queen, son, cake, whim · What happens: not matter, say, have, eat, be · To what, where: perchance, whim · 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 (It, Queen, son, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 matters	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 matters	nsubj
3	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 matters	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 matters	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 matters	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Queen	det
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 son	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 son	punct
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 son	nmod:poss
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 has	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 way	punct
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 way	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 way	nmod:poss
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 son	appos
18	home	home	ADV	_	17 way	advmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 chase	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 chase	det
21	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 way	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 has	punct
23	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
24	perchance	perchance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 has	obj
25	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 perchance	acl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 cakes	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 cakes	nmod:poss
28	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 eaten	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 whim	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 whim	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 whim	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 whim	det
33	whim	whim	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 has	conj
34	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	36 those	case
35	as	as	ADP	_	34 such	fixed
36	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	42 have	nsubj
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 sick	nsubj
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 sick	cop
39	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 those	acl:relcl
40	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 have	aux
41	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	42 have	advmod
42	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 whim	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not matter in a quote	present	It			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the Queen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	present	my son	perchance		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perchance=Patient
4	eat in a quote	participle		perchance not said here	of Queen's cakes	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of cake=Source
5	is a in a quote	present	cake	a whim		tree rules
6	is in a quote	present			sick property	tree rules
7	have in a quote	present · do-support	a whim	a whim not said here	sometimes property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whim=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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