The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 150
She shut herself in her little room, threw off the ugly skin, bathed her face and hands, arranged her hair, put on a beautiful corsage of bright silver, and an equally beautiful petticoat, and then set herself to make the much desired cake.
Who acts: skin, beautiful petticoat · What happens: shut, throw off, bath, arrange, put, set · To what, where: skin, little room, ugly skin, face, hair, beautiful corsage
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 (skin, beautiful petticoat), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shut | nsubj |
| 2 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 shut | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 room | nmod:poss |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 room | amod |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shut | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 threw | punct |
| 9 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shut | parataxis |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 skin | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 skin | det |
| 12 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 skin | amod |
| 13 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 threw | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bathed | punct |
| 15 | bathed | bath | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 threw | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 face | nmod:poss |
| 17 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bathed | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hands | cc |
| 19 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 face | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 arranged | punct |
| 21 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bathed | conj |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hair | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arranged | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 put | punct |
| 25 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 hair | acl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 corsage | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 corsage | det |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 corsage | amod |
| 29 | corsage | corsage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 put | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 silver | case |
| 31 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 silver | amod |
| 32 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 corsage | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 petticoat | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 petticoat | cc |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 petticoat | det |
| 36 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 37 beautiful | advmod |
| 37 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 petticoat | amod |
| 38 | petticoat | petticoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shut | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 set | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 set | cc |
| 41 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 set | advmod |
| 42 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 petticoat | acl |
| 43 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 42 set | obj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 make | mark |
| 45 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 set | advcl |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 cake | det |
| 47 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 cake | amod |
| 48 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 cake | amod |
| 49 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 make | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | past | skin | skin | skin's little room | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 2 | throw off | past | the ugly skin | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bath | past | skin's face and hands | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | arrange | past | skin's hair | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Product | |||||
| 5 | put | participle | skin's hair not said here | a beautiful corsage of bright silver | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on corsage=Destination | ||||
| 6 | set | infinitive | a beautiful petticoat not said here | skin | then | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient herself=Result | |||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive | a beautiful petticoat not said here | the much desired cake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cake=Product | ||||
| 8 | desire | participle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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