The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 100
The good Fairy, who had saved her life by condemning her to sleep a hundred years, was in the kingdom of Matakin, twelve thousand leagues off, when this accident befell the Princess; but she was instantly informed of it by a little dwarf, who had boots of seven leagues, that is, boots with which he could tread over seven leagues of ground at one stride.
Who acts: good Fairy, twelve thousand, accident, little dwarf, that, dwarf · What happens: save, condemn, sleep, be, league off, befall · To what, where: good Fairy, Princess, kingdom, boots, seven leagues, one stride
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 (good Fairy, twelve thousand, accident, little dwarf), 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 Fairy | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Fairy | amod |
| 3 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kingdom | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saved | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saved | aux |
| 7 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Fairy | acl:relcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 life | nmod:poss |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saved | obj |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 condemning | mark |
| 11 | condemning | condemn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 saved | advcl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 condemning | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 sleep | mark |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 condemning | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hundred | det |
| 16 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 years | nummod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sleep | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Fairy | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 kingdom | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 kingdom | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 kingdom | det |
| 22 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Matakin | case |
| 24 | Matakin | Matakin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 kingdom | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 leagues | punct |
| 26 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 thousand | compound |
| 27 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 leagues | nsubj |
| 28 | leagues | league | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 kingdom | parataxis |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 leagues | compound:prt |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 befell | punct |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 befell | advmod |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 accident | det |
| 33 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 befell | nsubj |
| 34 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 leagues | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Princess | det |
| 36 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 befell | obj |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 informed | punct |
| 38 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 informed | cc |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 informed | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 informed | aux:pass |
| 41 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 42 informed | advmod |
| 42 | informed | inform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 leagues | conj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 it | case |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 informed | obl |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 48 dwarf | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 dwarf | det |
| 47 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 dwarf | amod |
| 48 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 informed | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 had | punct |
| 50 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 had | nsubj |
| 51 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 dwarf | acl:relcl |
| 52 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 had | obj |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 leagues | case |
| 54 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 55 leagues | nummod |
| 55 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 boots | nmod |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 boots | punct |
| 57 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 60 boots | nsubj |
| 58 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 60 boots | cop |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 is | punct |
| 60 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 kingdom | conj |
| 61 | with | with | ADP | _ | 62 which | case |
| 62 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 65 tread | obl |
| 63 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 65 tread | nsubj |
| 64 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 65 tread | aux |
| 65 | tread | tread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 60 boots | parataxis |
| 66 | over | over | ADV | _ | 67 seven | advmod |
| 67 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 68 leagues | nummod |
| 68 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 65 tread | obj |
| 69 | of | of | ADP | _ | 70 ground | case |
| 70 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 leagues | nmod |
| 71 | at | at | ADP | _ | 73 stride | case |
| 72 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 73 stride | nummod |
| 73 | stride | stride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 tread | obl |
| 74 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 kingdom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past · perfect · passive | the good Fairy | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary life=Theme | |||||
| 2 | condemn | gerund | Princess | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | year | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the good Fairy | the kingdom and boots | of Matakin | tree rules | |||
| 5 | league off | present | twelve thousand | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | befall | past | this accident | the Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | inform speech: other | past · passive | a little dwarf | Princess | of accident; instantly property | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient of it=Topic | |||
| 8 | have | past | a little dwarf | boots of seven leagues | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Patient | ||||
| 9 | is a | present | that | boots | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | tread | could | dwarf | seven leagues of ground | one stride | with boots | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent league=Patient with which=Instrument |
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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