The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 26
Thus our woodcutter did not change his state, did not become a potentate, nor fill his purse with golden crowns.
Who acts: woodcutter · What happens: not change, not become, fill · To what, where: state, potentate, purse
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 (woodcutter), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 change | advmod |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 woodcutter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | woodcutter | woodcutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 change | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 change | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 change | advmod |
| 6 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 state | nmod:poss |
| 8 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 change | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 become | punct |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 become | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 become | advmod |
| 12 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 change | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 potentate | det |
| 14 | potentate | potentate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 become | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fill | punct |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 fill | cc |
| 17 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 change | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 purse | nmod:poss |
| 19 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fill | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 crowns | case |
| 21 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 crowns | amod |
| 22 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fill | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 change | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not change | past · do-support | our woodcutter | woodcutter's state | thus property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Patient | |||
| 2 | not become | past · do-support | our woodcutter not said here | a potentate | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fill | infinitive | our woodcutter not said here | woodcutter's purse | with golden crowns | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent purse=Patient with crown=Instrument |
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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