The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 64
The young Princess, beside herself with misery, at last bethought her of the Lilac-fairy, her godmother; determined to consult her, she set out that same night in a pretty little carriage drawn by a great sheep who knew all the roads.
Who acts: young Princess, Princess, great sheep · What happens: bethink, determine, consult, set out, draw, know · To what, where: reason, last, Princess, pretty little carriage, roads
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 (young Princess, Princess, great sheep), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Princess | amod |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bethought | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 herself | punct |
| 5 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 6 herself | case |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 Princess | nmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 misery | case |
| 8 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 herself | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bethought | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bethought | obl |
| 12 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bethought | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fairy | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fairy | det |
| 16 | Lilac | Lilac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 fairy | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Lilac | punct |
| 18 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bethought | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 godmother | punct |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 godmother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fairy | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 determined | punct |
| 23 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 bethought | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 consult | mark |
| 25 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 determined | xcomp |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 consult | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 set | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 set | nsubj |
| 29 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bethought | conj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 set | compound:prt |
| 31 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 night | det |
| 32 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 night | amod |
| 33 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 set | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 carriage | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 carriage | det |
| 36 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 carriage | amod |
| 37 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 carriage | amod |
| 38 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 set | obl |
| 39 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 carriage | acl |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 sheep | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 sheep | det |
| 42 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 sheep | amod |
| 43 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 drawn | obl |
| 44 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 knew | nsubj |
| 45 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 sheep | acl:relcl |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 roads | det:predet |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 roads | det |
| 48 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 knew | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 bethought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bethink | past | the young Princess beside Princess | reason | last | of the Lilac fairy and Princess's godmother | tree rules | ||
| 2 | determine | participle | the young Princess beside Princess not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | consult | to-infinitive | the young Princess beside Princess not said here | Princess | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | set out | past | Princess | a pretty little carriage | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | draw | participle | a pretty little carriage not said here | by a great sheep | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | know | past | a great sheep | all roads | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/64/