The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 91
The poor child fled away from her and went to hide herself in the forest, not far from thence.
Who acts: poor child · What happens: flee away, go, hide · To what, where: mother, forest
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 child), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 child | amod |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fled | nsubj |
| 4 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 fled | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fled | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fled | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 hide | mark |
| 11 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | xcomp |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 hide | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hide | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 far | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 far | advmod |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 hide | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 thence | case |
| 20 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 18 far | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee away | past | the poor child | from mother; away property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the poor child not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hide | to-infinitive | the poor child not said here | mother | the forest | far property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in forest=Location |
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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