The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 83
She was dumb-founded, and pretending that its brilliance had hurt her eyes she retired to her chamber, where she found the Fairy awaiting her.
Who acts: Princess, Fairy · What happens: found, pretend, hurt, retire, find, await · To what, where: Princess, brilliance, eyes, Fairy
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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 founded | aux:pass |
| 3 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 founded | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 dumb | punct |
| 5 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pretending | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pretending | cc |
| 8 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 founded | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 hurt | mark |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brilliance | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brilliance | brilliance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hurt | aux |
| 13 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 pretending | ccomp |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hurt | obj |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 retired | nsubj |
| 17 | retired | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 chamber | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 20 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 retired | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 found | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 found | nsubj |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 chamber | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Fairy | det |
| 26 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obj |
| 27 | awaiting | await | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 Fairy | acl |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 awaiting | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past · passive | Princess | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | pretend | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | hurt | past · perfect · passive | robe's brilliance | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer eye=Result | |||||
| 4 | retire | past | Princess | Princess's eyes not said here | to Princess's chamber | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Attribute | |||
| 5 | find | past | Princess | the Fairy | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Topic | ||||
| 6 | await | gerund | the Fairy not said here | Princess | 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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