The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 29

The Wolf seeing her come in, said to her, hiding himself under the bedclothes:

Who acts: Wolf · What happens: see, come in, say, hide · To what, where: Wolf, Hood, pot, bedclothes · 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), 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	2 Wolf	det
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
3	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Wolf	acl
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seeing	obj
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seeing	xcomp
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wolf	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hiding	punct
12	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 hiding	obj
14	under	under	ADP	_	16 bedclothes	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bedclothes	det
16	bedclothes	bedclothe	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hiding	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	see	gerund	the Wolf not said here	Wolf			tree rules
2	come in	infinitive	Wolf not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the Wolf		Hood		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
4	hide	gerund	the Wolf not said here	pot		the bedclothes	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient under bedclothe=Location

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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