The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "away She Drove, Scarce Able to Contain Herself For Joy" 78, sentence 1
"ANY ONE BUT CINDERILLA WOULD HAVE DRESSED THEIR HEADS AWRY" _facing_ 80
What happens: dress, face · To what, where: ONE, 80
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "away She Drove, Scarce Able to Contain Herself For Joy" 78. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 8 DRESSED | punct |
| 2 | ANY | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 ONE | det |
| 3 | ONE | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 DRESSED | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | BUT | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 CINDERILLA | cc |
| 5 | CINDERILLA | CINDERILLA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ONE | conj |
| 6 | WOULD | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 DRESSED | aux |
| 7 | HAVE | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 DRESSED | aux |
| 8 | DRESSED | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | THEIR | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 HEADS | nmod:poss |
| 10 | HEADS | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 DRESSED | obj |
| 11 | AWRY | awry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 DRESSED | xcomp |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 DRESSED | punct |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 facing | punct |
| 14 | facing | face | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 DRESSED | conj |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 80 | punct |
| 16 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 facing | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress in a quote | would · perfect · passive | any ONE but CINDERILLA | awry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | face | gerund | 80 | 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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