The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 48
The Wolf, I say, for Wolves too sure there are Of every sort, and every character.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: say, be · 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 | 5 say | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wolf | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Wolves | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Wolves | case |
| 8 | Wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 say | obl |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 sure | advmod |
| 10 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 say | ccomp |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 are | expl |
| 12 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sure | ccomp |
| 13 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sort | case |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 sort | det |
| 15 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 are | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 character | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 character | cc |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 character | det |
| 19 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Wolf | for Wolves | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | be | present | there | of every sort | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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