The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 156
He kissed the ring a thousand times, put it under his pillow, and drew it out every moment that he thought himself unobserved.
Who acts: man · What happens: kiss, put, draw out, think, unobserv · To what, where: ring, pillow, man
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kissed | nsubj |
| 2 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ring | det |
| 4 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kissed | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thousand | det |
| 6 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 times | nummod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kissed | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 kissed | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 pillow | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 13 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drew | cc |
| 16 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kissed | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 drew | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 drew | compound:prt |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 moment | det |
| 20 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drew | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 thought | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 thought | nsubj |
| 23 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 drew | advcl |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 thought | obj |
| 25 | unobserved | unobserv | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 thought | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | man | the ring | time | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | man not said here | ring | man's pillow | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under pillow=Destination | |||
| 3 | draw out | past | man not said here | ring | moment | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | man | man | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | unobserv | participle | man not said here | 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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