The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 20

The good grand-mother, who was in bed, because she found herself somewhat ill, cry'd out:

Who acts: good grand mother, mother · What happens: be, find, cry · To what, where: bed, mother

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 (good grand mother, mother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mother	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mother	amod
3	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mother	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 grand	punct
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cry	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bed	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 bed	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bed	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 bed	case
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mother	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 found	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mother	acl:relcl
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 found	obj
16	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	17 ill	advmod
17	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 found	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cry	punct
19	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 out	aux
21	out	out	ADV	_	19 cry	advmod
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 cry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the good grand mother and bed		bed		tree rules
2	find	past	mother	mother		ill property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic
3	cry speech: express	infinitive	the good grand mother and bed			out property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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