The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 19
He was about to speak the word, when he was stayed by a sudden thought.
Who acts: mischance, sudden thought · What happens: be, speak, stay · To what, where: word, mischance · 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 (mischance, sudden thought), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 about | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 about | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 speak | mark |
| 5 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 about | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speak | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stayed | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 stayed | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stayed | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stayed | aux:pass |
| 12 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 word | acl:relcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 thought | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 thought | det |
| 15 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thought | amod |
| 16 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stayed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | mischance | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | mischance not said here | the word | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stay | past · passive | a sudden thought | mischance | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme subject=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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