The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 10

Next morning he asked her for the keys, which she gave him, but with such a trembling hand, that he easily guessed what had happened.

Who acts: Beard, keys · What happens: ask, give, tremble, guess, happen · To what, where: affair, Beard · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beard, keys), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	iobj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 keys	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 keys	det
8	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 asked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 gave	nsubj
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 keys	acl:relcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	iobj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hand	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 hand	cc
16	with	with	ADP	_	20 hand	case
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 hand	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hand	det
19	trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 hand	amod
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 guessed	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 guessed	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 guessed	nsubj
24	easily	easily	ADV	_	25 guessed	advmod
25	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	conj
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 happened	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 happened	aux
28	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 guessed	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Beard	affair	morning	for the keys; with such trembling hand	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	give	past	the keys	Beard			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	tremble	gerund					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	guess	past	Beard			easily property	vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	happen	past · perfect					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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