The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 181
At the first knock she quickly covered her finery with the donkey-skin and opened the door.
Who acts: joy · What happens: cover, open · To what, where: finery, first knock, door
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 (joy), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 knock | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knock | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 knock | amod |
| 4 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covered | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 covered | nsubj |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 7 covered | advmod |
| 7 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 finery | nmod:poss |
| 9 | finery | finery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covered | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 skin | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 skin | det |
| 12 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 skin | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 donkey | punct |
| 14 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covered | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 opened | cc |
| 16 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 covered | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 opened | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past | joy | joy's finery | the first knock | with the donkey skin; quickly property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent finery=Destination with skin=Theme | ||
| 2 | open | past | joy not said here | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
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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