The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 5

Turning upon him, in her anger and disappointment she called the poor man all the abusive names that she could think of.

Who acts: wife · What happens: turn, call, think, anger · To what, where: poor man, anger, abusive names · 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), 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	Turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 called	csubj
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Turning	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 anger	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 anger	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 anger	nmod:poss
7	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 disappointment	cc
9	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 anger	conj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 called	nsubj
11	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	xcomp
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 names	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 names	det
17	abusive	abusive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 names	amod
18	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 called	obj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 think	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 think	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 think	aux
22	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 names	acl
23	of	of	ADP	_	22 think	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund				upon husband	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory
2	call speech: assert	past	wife	the poor man	wife's anger and disappointment		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
3	think speech: other	could	wife	all abusive names not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot name=Theme
4	anger		wife				nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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