The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 47
No wonder therefore 'tis, if over-power'd, So many of them has the Wolf devour'd.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: be, overpower, devour · To what, where: wonder, many
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.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg29021:119): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 wonder | det |
| 2 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 wonder | advmod |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 tis | punct |
| 5 | tis | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wonder | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 over-power | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 over-power | mark |
| 8 | over-power | overpower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 devour | advcl |
| 9 | 'd | 'd | X | _ | 8 over-power | goeswith |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 devour | punct |
| 11 | So | so | ADV | _ | 12 many | advmod |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 devour | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 many | nmod |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 devour | aux |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Wolf | det |
| 17 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 devour | nsubj |
| 18 | devour | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 wonder | parataxis |
| 19 | 'd | 'd | X | _ | 18 devour | goeswith |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | no wonder | therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | overpower a condition, not said to happen | participle | the Wolf not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | devour | present · perfect | the Wolf | many of beauties | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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