The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 91

What are you doing, my child?" she asked, seeing the Princess tearing her hair, her beautiful cheeks stained with tears. "

Who acts: you, godmother, Princess, beautiful cheeks · What happens: do, ask, see, tear, stain · To what, where: child, Princess, hair

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 (you, godmother, Princess, beautiful cheeks), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 doing	obj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 doing	nsubj
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 stained	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 child	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 child	nmod:poss
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doing	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 child	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 child	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 child	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seeing	punct
13	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 doing	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seeing	obj
16	tearing	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 Princess	acl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hair	nmod:poss
18	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tearing	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stained	punct
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 cheeks	nmod:poss
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cheeks	amod
22	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stained	nsubj
23	stained	stain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 tears	case
25	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stained	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 stained	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 stained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present · progressive	you	my child		tree rules
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	godmother	my child not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient
3	see in a quote	gerund	you not said here	the Princess		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
4	tear in a quote	gerund	the Princess not said here	godmother's hair		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hair=Theme
5	stain in a quote	past	godmother's beautiful cheeks		with tears	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tear=Theme

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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