The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 125

They ran thro' all the rooms, closets, and wardrobes, which were all so rich and fine, that they seemed to surpass one another.

Who acts: neighbours, wardrobes · What happens: run, be, seem, surpass · To what, where: thro, one

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 (neighbours, wardrobes), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thro	thro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obj
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 thro	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 rooms	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rooms	det
7	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ran	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 closets	punct
9	closets	closet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rooms	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wardrobes	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wardrobes	cc
12	wardrobes	wardrobe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rooms	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rich	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 rich	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 rich	cop
16	all	all	ADV	_	18 rich	advmod
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 rich	advmod
18	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wardrobes	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fine	cc
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 rich	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seemed	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 seemed	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seemed	nsubj
24	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 surpass	mark
26	surpass	surpass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 seemed	xcomp
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 surpass	obj
28	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 one	fixed
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run	past	neighbours = neighbour	thro		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent thro=Beneficiary room=Product
2	is	past	wardrobes		all, rich property	tree rules
3	be		wardrobes not said here			tree rules
4	seem	past	neighbours = neighbour			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	surpass	to-infinitive	neighbours = neighbour not said here	one		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot one=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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