The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 186
"Show me your hand," said the Prince trembling, and heaving a deep sigh.
Who acts: Prince trembling · What happens: show, say, heave · To what, where: hand, Prince trembling, deep sigh · 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 (Prince trembling), 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 Show | punct |
| 2 | Show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Show | iobj |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Show | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Show | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Show | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 trembling | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 trembling | compound |
| 11 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heaving | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 heaving | cc |
| 14 | heaving | heave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sigh | det |
| 16 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sigh | amod |
| 17 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heaving | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show in a quote | infinitive | your hand | the Prince trembling = trembling | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hand=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince trembling | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | heave | gerund | the Prince trembling not said here | a deep sigh | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=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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