The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 12
"I am going to see my grand-mamma, and carry her a girdle-cake, and a little pot of butter, from my mamma."
Who acts: poor child · What happens: go, see, carry · To what, where: little pot, grand mamma, mamma
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 (poor child), 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 going | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | xcomp |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mamma | nmod:poss |
| 8 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mamma | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 grand | punct |
| 10 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carry | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 carry | cc |
| 13 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 see | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carry | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cake | det |
| 16 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cake | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 girdle | punct |
| 18 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carry | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pot | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pot | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 pot | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 pot | amod |
| 23 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 butter | case |
| 25 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pot | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 mamma | punct |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 mamma | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 mamma | nmod:poss |
| 29 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | vocative |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the poor child = child | a little pot of butter | my mamma vocative | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | the poor child = child not said here | my grand mamma | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mamma=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | carry in a quote | infinitive | the poor child = child not said here | mamma | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme she=Beneficiary cake=Value |
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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