The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "'what, Is Not the Key of My Closet Among the Rest?'" 36, sentence 1
"THIS MAN HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO HAVE A BLUE BEARD" _facing_ 38
Who acts: MAN · What happens: have, face · To what, where: MISFORTUNE, BLUE BEARD, 38
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "'what, Is Not the Key of My Closet Among the Rest?'" 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MAN), 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 | _ | 4 HAD | punct |
| 2 | THIS | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 MAN | det |
| 3 | MAN | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 HAD | nsubj |
| 4 | HAD | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 MISFORTUNE | det |
| 6 | MISFORTUNE | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 HAD | obj |
| 7 | TO | to | PART | _ | 8 HAVE | mark |
| 8 | HAVE | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 MISFORTUNE | acl |
| 9 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 BEARD | det |
| 10 | BLUE | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 BEARD | amod |
| 11 | BEARD | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 HAVE | obj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 BEARD | punct |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 facing | punct |
| 14 | facing | face | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 HAD | conj |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 38 | punct |
| 16 | 38 | 38 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 facing | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | this MAN | the MISFORTUNE | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent misfortune=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | this MAN not said here | a BLUE BEARD | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient | ||||
| 3 | face | gerund | this MAN not said here | 38 | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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