The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 84
On seeing the dress like the sun, the Lilac-fairy became red with rage. "
Who acts: Lilac fairy · What happens: see, become · To what, where: dress
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 (Lilac 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 seeing | mark |
| 2 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 became | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dress | det |
| 4 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seeing | obj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 sun | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seeing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 seeing | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fairy | det |
| 10 | Lilac | lilac | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fairy | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Lilac | punct |
| 12 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | nsubj |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 became | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 rage | case |
| 16 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 red | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 became | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the Lilac fairy not said here | the dress | like the sun | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dress=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | become | past | the Lilac fairy | red property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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