The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 114
Blue Beard, to engage their affection, took them, with the lady their mother, and three or four ladies of their acquaintance, with other young people of the neighbourhood, to one of his country seats, where they stayed a whole week.
Who acts: Blue Beard, beauties · What happens: engage, take, stay, acquaint · To what, where: affection, beauties
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blue Beard, beauties), 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 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Beard | amod |
| 2 | Beard | Beard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 engage | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 engage | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 engage | mark |
| 5 | engage | engage | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 affection | nmod:poss |
| 7 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 engage | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 engage | parataxis |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lady | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 lady | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lady | det |
| 14 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lady | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ladies | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ladies | cc |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 ladies | nummod |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 four | cc |
| 21 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 three | conj |
| 22 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 acquaintance | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 acquaintance | nmod:poss |
| 25 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ladies | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 people | punct |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 people | case |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 people | amod |
| 29 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 people | amod |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 neighbourhood | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 neighbourhood | det |
| 33 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 people | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 one | punct |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 one | case |
| 36 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 took | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 seats | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 seats | nmod:poss |
| 39 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 seats | compound |
| 40 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 one | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 stayed | punct |
| 42 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 44 stayed | advmod |
| 43 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 stayed | nsubj |
| 44 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 seats | acl:relcl |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 week | det |
| 46 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 week | amod |
| 47 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 engage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | to-infinitive | Blue Beard | beauties's affection | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | past | beauties = beauty | with the lady; with other young people of the neighbourhood; three ladies of beauties's acquaintance obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stay | past | beauties = beauty | week | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | acquaint | beauties = beauty | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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