The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 184
Sad and confounded, he said, "Is it you who lodge at the bottom of that dark alley in the third yard of the farm?"
Who acts: King, garb · What happens: confound, say, be, lodge · To what, where: you, bottom · 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 (King, garb), 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 | Sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advcl |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 confounded | cc |
| 3 | confounded | confound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Sad | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 you | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 you | punct |
| 9 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 you | cop |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 you | nsubj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lodge | nsubj |
| 13 | lodge | lodge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 you | acl:relcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 bottom | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bottom | det |
| 16 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lodge | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 alley | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 alley | det |
| 19 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 alley | amod |
| 20 | alley | alley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bottom | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 yard | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 yard | det |
| 23 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 yard | amod |
| 24 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 alley | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 farm | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 farm | det |
| 27 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 yard | nmod |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confound | participle | King not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | garb | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lodge in a quote | present | the bottom of that dark alley in the third yard of the farm | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=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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