The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 147
A messenger ran to the farm and told Donkey-skin that she was to make a cake for the Prince as well as she possibly could.
Who acts: messenger · What happens: run, tell, be · To what, where: Donkey skin · 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 (messenger), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 messenger | det |
| 2 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 farm | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 farm | det |
| 6 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 told | cc |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 9 | Donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skin | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Donkey | punct |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 make | obj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 make | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 told | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cake | det |
| 18 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 Prince | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obl |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 27 could | cc |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 as | fixed |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 could | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 could | nsubj |
| 26 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 27 could | advmod |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | a messenger | to the farm result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to farm=Result | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | a messenger not said here | Donkey skin | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent skin=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | past | messenger | for the Prince; 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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