The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 22

The Wolf pull'd the peg, and the door opened, and then presently he fell upon the good woman, and ate her up in a moment; for it was above three days that he had not touched a bit.

Who acts: door, pull, peg · What happens: open, fall, eat up, be, not touch · To what, where: woman, bit

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 (door, pull, peg), 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	3 pull	det
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pull	compound
3	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 'd	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 peg	det
6	peg	peg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 'd	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 opened	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 opened	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 opened	nsubj
11	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 'd	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fell	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fell	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 presently	advmod
15	presently	presently	ADV	_	17 fell	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fell	nsubj
17	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 'd	parataxis
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 woman	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woman	det
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fell	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ate	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ate	cc
24	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fell	conj
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ate	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 ate	compound:prt
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 moment	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 moment	det
29	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ate	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 days	punct
31	for	for	ADP	_	36 days	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 days	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 days	cop
34	above	above	ADP	_	36 days	case
35	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 days	nummod
36	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 ate	parataxis
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 touched	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 touched	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 touched	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 touched	advmod
41	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 days	advcl
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 bit	det
43	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 touched	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 'd	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	pull			upon the good woman; presently property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon woman=Location
3	eat up	past	pull not said here	woman	moment		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	is	past	peg		for three days		tree rules
5	not touch	past · perfect	pull	a bit			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bit=Co-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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