The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 3
Hardly had he spoken these words when his wife beheld, to her great astonishment, a long black pudding which, issuing from a corner of the hearth, came winding and wriggling towards her.
Who acts: he, wife, long black pudding · What happens: speak, behold, issue, come, wind, wriggle · To what, where: words, great astonishment, corner · 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 (he, wife, long black pudding), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 spoken | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoken | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoken | nsubj |
| 4 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spoken | obj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 beheld | advmod |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beheld | nsubj |
| 10 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoken | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 astonishment | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 astonishment | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 astonishment | amod |
| 15 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beheld | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pudding | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pudding | det |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pudding | amod |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pudding | amod |
| 20 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 astonishment | appos |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 issuing | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 issuing | punct |
| 23 | issuing | issue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 pudding | acl:relcl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 corner | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 corner | det |
| 26 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 issuing | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 hearth | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hearth | det |
| 29 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 corner | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 came | punct |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 beheld | conj |
| 32 | winding | wind | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 came | xcomp |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 wriggling | cc |
| 34 | wriggling | wriggle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 winding | conj |
| 35 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 36 her | case |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 wriggling | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | he | this words | hardly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | behold | past | his wife | wife's great astonishment | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer astonishment=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | issue | gerund | a long black pudding | a corner of the hearth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | his wife not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | wind | gerund | his wife not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | wriggle | gerund | his wife not said here | towards wife | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | astonish | wife | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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