The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 172
They were all brought to the palace, but their coarse red, short, fingers would hardly go through the golden hoop as far as the nail.
Who acts: coarse red fingers · What happens: bring, go · To what, where: Princes, palace, golden hoop
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 (coarse red fingers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux:pass |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 brought | advmod |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 go | cc |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | coarse | coarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fingers | amod |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fingers | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 short | punct |
| 14 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 red | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 red | punct |
| 16 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 go | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | aux |
| 18 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 brought | conj |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 hoop | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hoop | det |
| 22 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hoop | amod |
| 23 | hoop | hoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 far | advmod |
| 25 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 go | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 nail | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 nail | det |
| 28 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 far | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | Princes = prince | the palace | all property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | would | Princes's coarse red fingers | the golden hoop | far, hardly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through hoop=Initial_Location |
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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