The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 9

As she was going thro' the wood, she met with Gaffer Wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up, but he durst not, because of some faggot-makers hard by in the forest.

Who acts: Hood, Gaffer · What happens: go, meet, have, eat up, not durst · To what, where: thro, great mind, Hood

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 (Hood, Gaffer), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 going	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 met	advcl
5	thro	thro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	xcomp
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 thro	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 met	nsubj
11	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 Gaffer	case
13	Gaffer	Gaffer	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 met	obl
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Gaffer	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Gaffer	acl:relcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mind	det
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 great	advmod
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mind	amod
21	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 eat	mark
23	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 mind	acl
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 eat	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 eat	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 durst	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 durst	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 durst	nsubj
29	durst	durst	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 met	obl
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 durst	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 makers	punct
32	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	37 makers	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	32 because	fixed
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 makers	det
35	faggot	faggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 makers	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 faggot	punct
37	makers	maker	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 met	obl
38	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 makers	advmod
39	by	by	ADP	_	42 forest	case
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 forest	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 forest	det
42	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 met	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	Hood	thro		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	past	Hood		with Gaffer; because some faggot makers; by the forest	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with gaffer=Co-Agent
3	have	past	Gaffer	a great mind		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
4	eat up	to-infinitive	Gaffer not said here	Hood		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	not durst		Gaffer			tree rules

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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