The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 151

She took the finest flour, and newest eggs and freshest butter, and while she was working them, whether by design or no, a ring which she had on her finger fell into the cake and was mixed in it.

Who acts: skin · What happens: take, work, have, fall, mix · To what, where: finest flour, eggs, ring, finger, cake

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), 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flour	det
4	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 flour	amod
5	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eggs	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 eggs	cc
8	newest	new	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 eggs	amod
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 butter	cc
11	freshest	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 butter	amod
12	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eggs	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 working	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 working	cc
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 working	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 working	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 working	aux
18	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 took	advcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 working	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fell	punct
21	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	35 fell	mark
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 design	case
23	design	design	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fell	obl
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 no	cc
25	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	23 design	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ring	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 ring	det
28	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 design	conj
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 had	obj
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 ring	acl:relcl
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 finger	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 finger	nmod:poss
34	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obl
35	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 cake	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 cake	det
38	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fell	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 mixed	cc
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 mixed	aux:pass
41	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 fell	conj
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 it	case
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 mixed	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	skin	the finest flour		newest eggs and freshest butter obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flour=Theme
2	work	past · progressive	skin	eggs = egg			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent they=Material
3	have	past	skin	a ring	skin's finger		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
4	fall	past			the cake	by design and a ring	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by design=Location
5	mix	past · passive			cake		vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»

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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