The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 68
"I beg your pardon, mamma," said the poor girl, "for not making more haste," and, in speaking these words, there came out of her mouth two roses, two pearls, and two diamonds.
Who acts: poor girl, words, your · What happens: beg, say, not make, speak, come out, pardon · To what, where: pardon, more haste, two diamonds · 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 (poor girl, words, your), 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 beg | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 beg | nsubj |
| 3 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beg | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mamma | punct |
| 7 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pardon | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 beg | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 beg | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 girl | amod |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 making | mark |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 making | advmod |
| 18 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 haste | amod |
| 20 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 making | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 making | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 making | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 speaking | cc |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 and | punct |
| 25 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 26 speaking | mark |
| 26 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 making | conj |
| 27 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 words | det |
| 28 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 speaking | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 came | punct |
| 30 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 came | expl |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADV | _ | 31 came | advmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 mouth | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 35 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 came | obl |
| 36 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 roses | nummod |
| 37 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 mouth | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 pearls | punct |
| 39 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 pearls | nummod |
| 40 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 roses | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 diamonds | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 diamonds | cc |
| 43 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 diamonds | nummod |
| 44 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 came | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | the poor girl = girl | your pardon and mamma | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the poor girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not make in a quote | gerund | the poor girl not said here | more haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | gerund | this words | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | come out | past | the poor girl not said here | two diamonds | there | of girl's mouth and two roses and two pearls; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||
| 6 | pardon in a quote | your | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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