The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 9

Once a witless fool, always a witless fool!" and giving free rein to her vexation and ill-temper she continued to upbraid her husband until his anger also was stirred, and he had wellnigh made a second bid and wished himself a widower.

Who acts: wife, husband · What happens: give, continue, upbraid, stir, have, make · To what, where: free rein, vexation, husband, anger, second bid

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 (wife, husband), 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	SCONJ	_	4 fool	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fool	det
3	witless	witless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fool	amod
4	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 continued	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fool	punct
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 fool	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fool	det
8	witless	witless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fool	amod
9	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fool	appos
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 fool	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fool	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 giving	cc
13	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 fool	conj
14	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rein	amod
15	rein	rein	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 giving	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 vexation	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 vexation	nmod:poss
18	vexation	vexation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 giving	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 temper	cc
20	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 temper	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 ill	punct
22	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fool	conj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 continued	nsubj
24	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	to	to	PART	_	26 upbraid	mark
26	upbraid	upbraid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 continued	xcomp
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 husband	nmod:poss
28	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 upbraid	obj
29	until	until	SCONJ	_	34 stirred	mark
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 anger	nmod:poss
31	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stirred	nsubj:pass
32	also	also	ADV	_	34 stirred	advmod
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 stirred	aux:pass
34	stirred	stir	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 upbraid	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 had	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 continued	conj
39	wellnigh	wellnigh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 had	xcomp
40	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 wellnigh	acl
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 bid	det
42	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	43 bid	amod
43	bid	bid	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 made	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 wished	cc
45	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 continued	conj
46	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	45 wished	obj
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 widower	det
48	widower	widower	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 wished	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	gerund	wife not said here	free rein	wife's vexation		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rein=Theme to vexation=Recipient
2	continue in a quote	past	wife			once a witless fool and ill temper	vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	upbraid in a quote	to-infinitive	wife not said here	wife's husband			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme
4	stir in a quote	past · passive		husband's anger			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	have in a quote	past	husband			wellnigh property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	make in a quote	participle		a second bid			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bid=Product
7	wish in a quote	past	wife not said here	husband			tree rules
8	vex in a quote		wife				nom vexation «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
9	anger in a quote		husband				nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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