The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 128

She was so much pressed by her curiosity, that, without considering that it was very uncivil to leave her company, she went down a little back-stair-case, and with such excessive haste, that she had twice or thrice like to have broken her neck.

Who acts: curiosity, it, way · What happens: press, consider, be, leave, go down, have · To what, where: way, company, little back stair case, neck

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 (curiosity, it, way), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pressed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pressed	aux:pass
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 pressed	advmod
5	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 curiosity	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 curiosity	nmod:poss
8	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pressed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 that	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 curiosity	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 considering	punct
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 considering	mark
13	considering	consider	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 pressed	advcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 uncivil	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 uncivil	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 uncivil	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 uncivil	advmod
18	uncivil	uncivil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 considering	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 leave	mark
20	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 uncivil	csubj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 company	nmod:poss
22	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 leave	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pressed	conj
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 case	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 case	amod
29	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 case	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 back	punct
31	stair	stair	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 case	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 case	punct
33	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 haste	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 haste	cc
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 haste	case
37	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 haste	amod
38	excessive	excessive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 haste	amod
39	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pressed	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 had	punct
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 had	mark
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 had	nsubj
43	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pressed	conj
44	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	46 thrice	advmod
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 thrice	cc
46	thrice	thrice	ADV	_	43 had	advmod
47	like	like	SCONJ	_	50 broken	mark
48	to	to	PART	_	50 broken	mark
49	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 broken	aux
50	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 thrice	advcl
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 neck	nmod:poss
52	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 broken	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	press	past · passive	way's curiosity that	way	with such excessive haste	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent subject=Result
2	consider	gerund	way's curiosity that not said here			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	it		uncivil property	tree rules
4	leave	to-infinitive		way's company		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme
5	go down	past	way	a little back stair case	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	have	past	way		thrice property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	break	to-infinitive · perfect	way not said here	way's neck		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient

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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