The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 176
And the servants ran laughing and mocking to find the goose-girl.
Who acts: servants · What happens: run, laugh, mock, find · To what, where: goose girl
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 (servants), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ran | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 servants | det |
| 3 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 ran | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mocking | cc |
| 7 | mocking | mock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 laughing | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 mocking | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 11 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 girl | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 goose | punct |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the servants | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | the servants not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mock | gerund | the servants not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | the servants not said here | the goose girl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic |
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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