The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 6

One day, her mother, having made some girdle-cakes, said to her:

Who acts: mother, One day · What happens: make, say · To what, where: girdle cakes, girl · 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 (mother, One day), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct
7	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 made	aux
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 mother	acl
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 cakes	det
10	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cakes	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 girdle	punct
12	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund · perfect	girl's mother not said here	some girdle cakes					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cake=Product
2	say speech: assert	past	One day		girl				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient

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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