The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 74
Once more she went to her Fairy-godmother who, astonished that her plan had been foiled, now told her to ask for another gown the colour of the moon.
Who acts: Princess, Fairy godmother · What happens: go, astonish, foil, tell, ask, plan · To what, where: Fairy godmother, plan, Princess, colour · 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 (Princess, Fairy godmother), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 more | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 godmother | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 godmother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 godmother | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Fairy | punct |
| 9 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 astonished | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 astonished | punct |
| 12 | astonished | astonish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 godmother | acl:relcl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 foiled | mark |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 plan | nmod:poss |
| 15 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 foiled | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 foiled | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 foiled | aux:pass |
| 18 | foiled | foil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 astonished | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 told | punct |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 told | advmod |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | iobj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 ask | mark |
| 24 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 told | xcomp |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 gown | case |
| 26 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 gown | det |
| 27 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ask | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 colour | det |
| 29 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ask | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 moon | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 moon | det |
| 32 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 colour | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Princess | Princess's Fairy godmother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to godmother=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | astonish | past | Princess's Fairy godmother | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | foil | past · perfect · passive | Princess's plan | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Princess not said here | Princess | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | ask speech: ask not said to happen | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | the colour of the moon | for another gown | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent colour=Recipient | |||
| 6 | plan | Princess | nom plan «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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