The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 26
"'Tis your grand-child, Little Red Riding-Hood, who has brought you a girdle-cake, and a little pot of butter, mamma sends you."
Who acts: Tis · What happens: bring, send · To what, where: Tis, you
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 (Tis), 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 | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 3 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 sends | nsubj |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 child | nmod:poss |
| 5 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 child | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 grand | punct |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Tis | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Red | punct |
| 9 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Red | amod |
| 10 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tis | conj |
| 11 | Riding | Riding | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Red | flat |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hood | punct |
| 13 | Hood | Hood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Red | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 brought | aux |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Tis | parataxis |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cake | det |
| 20 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cake | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 girdle | punct |
| 22 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 pot | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 pot | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 pot | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pot | amod |
| 27 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Tis | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 butter | case |
| 29 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pot | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 31 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sends | nsubj |
| 32 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 sends | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 sends | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Tis and Little Red and Hood | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | send in a quote | present | Tis and Little Red and Hood | you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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