The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "'what Is This I See?' Said Her Mother" 28, sentence 1
"'AM I COME HITHER TO SERVE YOU WITH WATER, PRAY?'"
Who acts: I · What happens: come, serve, pray · To what, where: AM, YOU
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "'what Is This I See?' Said Her Mother" 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 COME | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 AM | punct |
| 3 | AM | a.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 COME | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 COME | nsubj |
| 5 | COME | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | HITHER | hither | ADV | _ | 5 COME | advmod |
| 7 | TO | to | PART | _ | 8 SERVE | mark |
| 8 | SERVE | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 COME | advcl |
| 9 | YOU | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 SERVE | obj |
| 10 | WITH | with | ADP | _ | 11 WATER | case |
| 11 | WATER | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 SERVE | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 PRAY | punct |
| 13 | PRAY | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 SERVE | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 COME | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 COME | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 COME | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | I | AM | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | serve in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | YOU | with WATER | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with water=Theme | |||
| 3 | pray in a quote | infinitive | I not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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