The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 69

"What is this I see?" said her mother quite astonished, "I think I see pearls and diamonds come out of the girl's mouth!

Who acts: this, I, pearls · What happens: be, say, think, see, come out · To what, where: mouth · 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 (this, I, pearls), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 see	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 see	cop
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 see	nsubj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
6	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 astonished	nsubj
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 astonished	advmod
13	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 think	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 think	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 think	nsubj
17	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
19	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 think	ccomp
20	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 come	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 diamonds	cc
22	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 pearls	conj
23	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 see	ccomp
24	out	out	ADP	_	29 mouth	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 mouth	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 girl	det
27	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mouth	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 girl	case
29	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	this		see property	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	think speech: other in a quote	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	see in a quote	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	come out in a quote	present	pearls and diamonds	the girl's mouth		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient mouth=Result

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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