The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 152
When the cooking was done she muffled herself in her horrible skin and gave the cake to the messenger, asking him for news of the Prince; but the man would not deign to reply, and without a word ran quickly back to the palace.
Who acts: cooking, man · What happens: do, muffle, give, ask, not deign, reply · To what, where: cooking, horrible skin, cake, messenger, slut
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 (cooking, man), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 done | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cooking | det |
| 3 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 muffled | advcl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 muffled | nsubj |
| 7 | muffled | muffle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 muffled | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 skin | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 skin | nmod:poss |
| 11 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 skin | amod |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 muffled | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 muffled | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cake | det |
| 16 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 messenger | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 messenger | det |
| 19 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 asking | punct |
| 21 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 gave | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 asking | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 news | case |
| 24 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 asking | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Prince | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Prince | det |
| 27 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 news | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 deign | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 deign | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 man | det |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 deign | nsubj |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 deign | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 deign | advmod |
| 34 | deign | deign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 muffled | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 reply | mark |
| 36 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 deign | xcomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 ran | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 ran | cc |
| 39 | without | without | ADP | _ | 41 word | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 word | det |
| 41 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 ran | obl |
| 42 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 muffled | conj |
| 43 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 44 back | advmod |
| 44 | back | back | ADV | _ | 42 ran | advmod |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 palace | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 palace | det |
| 47 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 ran | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 muffled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | the cooking | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | muffle | past | cooking | cooking | skin's horrible skin | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 3 | give | past | cooking not said here | the cake | the messenger | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cake=Theme to messenger=Recipient | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | gerund | cooking not said here | slut | for news of the Prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 5 | not deign | would | the man | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | reply speech: assert | to-infinitive | the man not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | run | past | cooking not said here | without a word; to the palace result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result |
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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