The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 89
"O mercy!" cried the mother, "what is it I see!
Who acts: mercy · What happens: cry, be, see · To what, where: mother, mercy · 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 (mercy), 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 mercy | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 mercy | discourse |
| 3 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 mercy | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mercy | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mother | det |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 cried | obl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 it | cop |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 what | nsubj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | mercy | the mother | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | mercy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | mercy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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