The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 15
"Well," said the Wolf, "and I'll go and see her too: I'll go this way, and you go that, and we shall see who will be there soonest."
Who acts: Wolf, you, we · What happens: say, go, see, be · To what, where: Wolf, way · 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 (Wolf, you, we), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Wolf | det |
| 7 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 go | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 12 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 see | cc |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 see | advmod |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 go | nsubj |
| 20 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | aux |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 way | det |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 go | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 go | cc |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 go | nsubj |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 28 | that | that | ADV | _ | 27 go | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 see | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 see | cc |
| 31 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 see | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 see | aux |
| 33 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 go | advcl |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 there | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 there | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 there | cop |
| 37 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 see | ccomp |
| 38 | soonest | soon | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 37 there | parataxis |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Wolf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | future | the Wolf = wolf | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | the Wolf = wolf not said here | Wolf | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | future | the Wolf = wolf | this way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go in a quote | present | you | that property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | see in a quote | shall | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | future | there property | tree rules |
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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