The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 175
"Let someone fetch her at once," said the King; "it shall not be said that I left out the lowliest."
Who acts: someone, King · What happens: let, fetch, say, not say, leave out · To what, where: someone, skin, finger · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (someone, King), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fetch | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 fetch | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 said | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | aux:pass |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 left | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 left | nsubj |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 left | compound:prt |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lowliest | det |
| 25 | lowliest | lowly | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 left | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | someone | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fetch in a quote | infinitive | someone not said here | skin | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not say speech: assert in a quote | shall · passive | finger | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | leave out in a quote | past | the King = king | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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