The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 92
The King's son, then on his return from hunting, met her, and seeing her so very pretty, asked her what she did there alone, and why she cried.
Who acts: son, seeing, mother · What happens: meet, see, ask, do, cry, return · To what, where: mother, hunting · 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 (son, seeing, mother), 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 | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 met | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 return | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 return | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 return | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 return | nmod:poss |
| 9 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | appos |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 hunting | case |
| 11 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 return | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 13 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 met | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 asked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 asked | cc |
| 17 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 asked | csubj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seeing | obj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 pretty | advmod |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 pretty | advmod |
| 21 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 17 seeing | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seeing | punct |
| 23 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 met | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 asked | iobj |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 asked | obj |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 did | nsubj |
| 27 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 what | acl:relcl |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 did | advmod |
| 29 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 27 did | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 cried | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 cried | cc |
| 32 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 cried | advmod |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 cried | nsubj |
| 34 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 met | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the King's son | mother | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | mother | pretty property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | seeing | mother | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | past | mother | there | alone property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | mother | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | return | son | hunting | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |
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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