The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 14
"Oh! ay," answered Little Red Riding-Hood, "it is beyond that mill you see there, at the first house in the village."
Who acts: Little Red, ay, you · What happens: answer, be, see · To what, where: ay, mill · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Little Red, ay, you), 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 ay | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 ay | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ay | ay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ay | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Red | amod |
| 9 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | Riding | Riding | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Red | flat |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Hood | punct |
| 12 | Hood | Hood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Riding | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mill | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 mill | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 mill | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 mill | cop |
| 17 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 19 mill | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 mill | det |
| 19 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 see | nsubj |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 mill | acl:relcl |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 see | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 house | punct |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 26 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 house | amod |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | parataxis |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 village | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 village | det |
| 30 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 house | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 house | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Little Red | ay | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | ay | beyond that mill | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | you | that mill not said here | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mill=Stimulus |
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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