The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 146
In a word, I wish that Donkey-skin, since Donkey-skin it is, make him presently a cake."
Who acts: I, cake · What happens: wish, be · To what, where: word
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 word | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wish | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 word | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 wish | nsubj |
| 6 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 skin | mark |
| 8 | Donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 skin | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Donkey | punct |
| 10 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wish | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 12 | since | since | ADP | _ | 15 skin | case |
| 13 | Donkey | Donkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 skin | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Donkey | punct |
| 15 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 make | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | cop |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 is | punct |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wish | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 make | obj |
| 21 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 23 cake | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cake | det |
| 23 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wish | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | a word | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is | present | cake | since Donkey skin | make 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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