The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "away She Drove, Scarce Able to Contain Herself For Joy" 78, sentence 6
"HE BROUGHT THEM HOME BY THE VERY SAME WAY THEY CAME" _facing_ 112
Who acts: RIQUET, HEADS · What happens: bring, come, face · To what, where: HEADS, VERY SAME WAY, 112
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: who acts (RIQUET, HEADS), 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 | _ | 3 BROUGHT | punct |
| 2 | HE | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 BROUGHT | nsubj |
| 3 | BROUGHT | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | THEM | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 BROUGHT | obj |
| 5 | HOME | home | ADV | _ | 3 BROUGHT | advmod |
| 6 | BY | by | ADP | _ | 10 WAY | case |
| 7 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 WAY | det |
| 8 | VERY | very | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 WAY | amod |
| 9 | SAME | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 WAY | amod |
| 10 | WAY | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 BROUGHT | obl |
| 11 | THEY | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 CAME | nsubj |
| 12 | CAME | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 WAY | acl:relcl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 facing | punct |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 facing | punct |
| 15 | facing | face | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 BROUGHT | advcl |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 112 | punct |
| 17 | 112 | 112 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 facing | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | past | RIQUET | HEADS = head | by the VERY SAME WAY; home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | HEADS = head | the VERY SAME WAY not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | face | gerund | RIQUET not said here | 112 | 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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