The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 4

She uttered a cry of fear, and then again exclaimed in dismay, when she perceived that this strange occurrence was due to the wish which her husband had so rashly and foolishly spoken.

Who acts: wife, strange occurrence, husband, fear · What happens: utter, exclaim, perceive, be, have, speak · To what, where: cry, dismay, due wish · 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 (wife, strange occurrence, husband, fear), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 uttered	nsubj
2	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cry	det
4	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uttered	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 fear	case
6	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cry	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 exclaimed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 exclaimed	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 exclaimed	advmod
10	again	again	ADV	_	11 exclaimed	advmod
11	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 uttered	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 dismay	case
13	dismay	dismay	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 exclaimed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 perceived	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 perceived	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 perceived	nsubj
17	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 uttered	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 wish	mark
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 occurrence	det
20	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 occurrence	amod
21	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wish	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 wish	cop
23	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wish	amod
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 wish	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wish	det
26	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 perceived	ccomp
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 had	obj
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 husband	nmod:poss
29	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 wish	acl:relcl
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 rashly	advmod
32	rashly	rashly	ADV	_	30 had	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 spoken	cc
34	foolishly	foolishly	ADV	_	35 spoken	advmod
35	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 rashly	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 uttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	utter speech: other	past	wife	a cry of fear				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic
2	exclaim speech: express	participle	wife not said here		dismay	then; again		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	perceive	past	wife					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	this strange occurrence				to the due wish	tree rules
5	have	past	wife's husband	the due wish			rashly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
6	speak speech: other	participle	wife's husband not said here				foolishly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	cry		fear					nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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