The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 6
"What!" she said to him, "when you can call for a kingdom, for gold, pearls, rubies, diamonds, for princely garments and wealth untold, is this the time to set your mind upon black puddings!"
Who acts: wife, husband, your · What happens: say, call, be, set, mind · To what, where: husband, time, mind, black puddings · 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, husband, your), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 said | obj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 call | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 call | punct |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 call | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 call | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 call | aux |
| 14 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 kingdom | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 kingdom | det |
| 17 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 call | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gold | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 gold | case |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 call | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pearls | punct |
| 22 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gold | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rubies | punct |
| 24 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 pearls | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 diamonds | punct |
| 26 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 pearls | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 garments | punct |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 garments | case |
| 29 | princely | princely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 garments | amod |
| 30 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 call | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 wealth | cc |
| 32 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 garments | conj |
| 33 | untold | untold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 call | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 time | punct |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 time | cop |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 time | det |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 time | det |
| 38 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 call | obl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 set | mark |
| 40 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 time | acl |
| 41 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 mind | nmod:poss |
| 42 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 set | obj |
| 43 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 45 puddings | case |
| 44 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 puddings | amod |
| 45 | puddings | pudding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 set | obl |
| 46 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 call | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | wife | husband | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call in a quote | can | husband | for a kingdom; for princely garments and wealth; untold property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for kingdom=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this time | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | set in a quote | to-infinitive | husband not said here | your mind | black puddings | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mind=Theme upon pudding=Destination | |||
| 5 | mind in a quote | your | nom mind «cognition 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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