The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 188
The King and the Queen, the chamberlains and all the courtiers were dumb-founded, when from beneath that black and dirty skin came a delicate little white and rose-pink hand, and the ring slipped without difficulty on to the prettiest little finger in the world.
Who acts: delicate hand, ring · What happens: found, come, slip · To what, where: King, black skin, prettiest little finger
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 (delicate hand, ring), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Queen | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 chamberlains | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chamberlains | det |
| 8 | chamberlains | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 King | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 courtiers | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 courtiers | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 courtiers | det |
| 12 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 chamberlains | conj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 founded | aux:pass |
| 14 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 founded | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 dumb | punct |
| 16 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 came | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 came | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 skin | case |
| 20 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 25 skin | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 skin | det |
| 22 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 skin | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 dirty | cc |
| 24 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 black | conj |
| 25 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | obl |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 founded | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 hand | det |
| 28 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 hand | amod |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 white | amod |
| 30 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 delicate | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 pink | cc |
| 32 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 pink | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 rose | punct |
| 34 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 delicate | conj |
| 35 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | nsubj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 slipped | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 slipped | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 ring | det |
| 39 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 slipped | nsubj |
| 40 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 founded | conj |
| 41 | without | without | ADP | _ | 42 difficulty | case |
| 42 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 slipped | obl |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 finger | case |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 finger | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 finger | det |
| 46 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 48 finger | amod |
| 47 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 finger | amod |
| 48 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 slipped | obl |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 world | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 world | det |
| 51 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 finger | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past · passive | the King and the Queen and the chamberlains and all courtiers | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | come | past | a delicate hand | that black skin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from skin=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | slip | past | the ring | the prettiest little finger in the world | without difficulty | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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