The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 94
The King's son, who saw five or six pearls, and as many diamonds, come out of her mouth, desired her to tell him how that happened.
Who acts: son, many diamonds, that · What happens: see, come out, desire, tell, happen · To what, where: five pearls, mother, son · 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, many diamonds, that), 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 | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 pearls | nummod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 six | cc |
| 10 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 five | conj |
| 11 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saw | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 come | cc |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 many | advmod |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 diamonds | amod |
| 16 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 come | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 diamonds | punct |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 saw | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 mouth | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 desired | punct |
| 24 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 desired | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 tell | mark |
| 27 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 desired | advcl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 tell | iobj |
| 29 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 happened | advmod |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 happened | nsubj |
| 31 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 tell | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the King's son | five pearls | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pearl=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come out | infinitive | many diamonds | of mother's mouth; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | desire | past | the King's son not said here | mother | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the King's son not said here | son | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | happen | past | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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