The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 122
Open them all; go into all and every one of them; except that little closet which I forbid you, and forbid it in such a manner that, if you happen to open it, there will be no bounds to my just anger and resentment."
Who acts: you, I, manner, bounds, my · What happens: open, go, forbid, happen, be, anger · To what, where: keys, all, little closet, closet, manner
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 (you, I, manner, bounds), 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 | Open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Open | obj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Open | conj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 go | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 one | cc |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 one | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 closet | punct |
| 14 | except | except | ADP | _ | 17 closet | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 closet | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 closet | amod |
| 17 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Open | obl |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 forbid | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 forbid | nsubj |
| 20 | forbid | forbid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 closet | acl:relcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 forbid | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 forbid | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 forbid | cc |
| 24 | forbid | forbid | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Open | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 forbid | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 manner | case |
| 27 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 manner | det:predet |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 manner | det |
| 29 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forbid | obl |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 happen | nsubj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 happen | punct |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 happen | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 happen | nsubj |
| 34 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 manner | acl:relcl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 open | mark |
| 36 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 happen | advcl |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 open | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 be | punct |
| 39 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 41 be | expl |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 be | aux |
| 41 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Open | conj |
| 42 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 43 bounds | det |
| 43 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 be | nsubj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 anger | case |
| 45 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 anger | nmod:poss |
| 46 | just | just | ADV | _ | 47 anger | advmod |
| 47 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 be | obl |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 resentment | cc |
| 49 | resentment | resentment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 anger | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Open | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | imperative | you not said here | keys = key | except that little closet | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | infinitive | you not said here | all | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into all=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | forbid | present | I | that little closet | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | forbid | infinitive | you not said here | closet | such manner | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme | |||
| 5 | happen a condition, not said to happen | present | such manner | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | open | to-infinitive | such manner not said here | closet | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | be | future | no bounds | there | to my anger and resentment | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 8 | anger | my | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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