The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 80
And, truth to tell, green spectacles and smoked glasses date from that time.
Who acts: truth · What happens: tell, smoke · To what, where: green spectacles, glasses date · 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 (truth), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tell | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 truth | punct |
| 3 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 tell | mark |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spectacles | punct |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spectacles | amod |
| 8 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tell | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 smoked | cc |
| 10 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | conj |
| 11 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 date | compound |
| 12 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 smoked | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 smoked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | truth | green spectacles | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | smoke | past | truth not said here | glasses date | time | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent date=Source |
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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