The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 75

The King again sought out the most clever workmen and expressly commanded them to make a dress the colour of the moon; and woe betide them if between the giving of the order and the bringing of the dress more than twenty-four hours should elapse.

Who acts: King, woe, giving · What happens: seek out, command, make, betide, give, bring · To what, where: clever workmen, workmen, dress · 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 (King, woe, giving), 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	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sought	nsubj
3	again	again	ADV	_	4 sought	advmod
4	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 sought	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 workmen	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 clever	advmod
8	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 workmen	amod
9	workmen	workman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sought	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 commanded	cc
11	expressly	expressly	ADV	_	12 commanded	advmod
12	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sought	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 commanded	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 make	mark
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 commanded	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 dress	det
17	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 colour	det
19	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 moon	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 moon	det
22	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 colour	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 betide	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 betide	cc
25	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 betide	nsubj
26	betide	betide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sought	parataxis
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 betide	obj
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	48 elapse	mark
29	between	between	ADP	_	48 elapse	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 elapse	det
31	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 elapse	csubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 order	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 order	det
34	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 giving	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 bringing	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bringing	det
37	bringing	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 giving	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 dress	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 dress	det
40	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bringing	obl
41	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 bringing	advmod
42	than	than	ADP	_	46 hours	case
43	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 hours	nummod
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 twenty	punct
45	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 twenty	conj
46	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 bringing	obl
47	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 elapse	aux
48	elapse	elapse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 betide	advcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seek out	past	the King	the clever workmen	again		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent workman=Theme
2	command	past	the King not said here	workmen = workman		expressly property	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
3	make	to-infinitive	the King not said here	a dress			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset dress=Beneficiary colour=Product
4	betide	present	woe	workmen = workman			tree rules
5	give	gerund				of the order	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	bring	gerund			hour	of the dress	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent of dress=Initial_Location
7	elapse a condition, not said to happen	should	giving				tree rules

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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