The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 149

Be that as it may, Donkey-skin, either having seen him, or having heard him spoken of with praise, was overjoyed to think that she might become known to him.

Who acts: remembrance, Donkey skin, farm, skin · What happens: be, see, hear, speak, overjoy, think · To what, where: Donkey skin, farm · 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 (remembrance, Donkey skin, farm, skin), 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 skin	cop
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Be	nsubj
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 skin	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 skin	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 skin	aux
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 skin	punct
7	Donkey	Donkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 skin	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Donkey	punct
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 overjoyed	nsubj:pass
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seen	punct
11	either	either	CCONJ	_	13 seen	cc:preconj
12	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 seen	aux
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 skin	acl:relcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seen	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heard	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 heard	cc
17	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 heard	aux
18	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 seen	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	obj
20	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 heard	xcomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 praise	case
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 praise	case
23	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spoken	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 skin	punct
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 overjoyed	aux:pass
26	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
27	to	to	PART	_	28 think	mark
28	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 overjoyed	xcomp
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 become	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 become	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 become	aux
32	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 think	ccomp
33	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 become	xcomp
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 known	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 overjoyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	may · infinitive	remembrance	Donkey skin			tree rules
2	see	gerund · perfect	Donkey skin not said here	farm			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	hear	gerund · perfect	Donkey skin not said here	farm			tree rules
4	speak speech: other	participle	farm not said here			of praise	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	overjoy	past · passive		Donkey skin			tree rules
6	think speech: other	to-infinitive					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	become	might	skin				tree rules
8	know	participle	skin not said here		farm		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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