The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "away She Drove, Scarce Able to Contain Herself For Joy" 78, sentence 8
"A LONG BLACK PUDDING CAME WINDING AND WRIGGLING TOWARDS HER" _facing_ 130
Who acts: LONG BLACK PUDDING CAME · What happens: wind, wriggle, face · To what, where: CAME, 130
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 (LONG BLACK PUDDING CAME), 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 | _ | 7 WINDING | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 CAME | det |
| 3 | LONG | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 CAME | amod |
| 4 | BLACK | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 CAME | amod |
| 5 | PUDDING | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 CAME | compound |
| 6 | CAME | came | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 WINDING | nsubj |
| 7 | WINDING | wind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 WRIGGLING | cc |
| 9 | WRIGGLING | wriggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 WINDING | conj |
| 10 | TOWARDS | towards | ADP | _ | 11 HER | case |
| 11 | HER | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 WRIGGLING | obj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 WRIGGLING | punct |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 facing | punct |
| 14 | facing | face | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 WINDING | conj |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 130 | punct |
| 16 | 130 | 130 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 facing | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wind in a quote | gerund | a LONG BLACK PUDDING CAME | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wriggle in a quote | gerund | a LONG BLACK PUDDING CAME not said here | CAME | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | face | gerund | a LONG BLACK PUDDING CAME not said here | 130 | 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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