The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 104
The very spits at the fire, as full as they could hold of partridges and pheasants, did fall asleep, and the fire likewise.
Who acts: horses · What happens: spit, hold, fall · To what, where: fire
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 (horses), 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 spits | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 spits | advmod |
| 3 | spits | spit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 fire | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fire | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spits | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 full | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 full | case |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spits | parataxis |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 hold | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hold | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hold | aux |
| 13 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 full | advcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 partridges | case |
| 15 | partridges | partridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hold | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pheasants | cc |
| 17 | pheasants | pheasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 partridges | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fall | punct |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fall | aux |
| 20 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hold | conj |
| 21 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fall | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fire | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fire | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fire | det |
| 25 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spits | conj |
| 26 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 3 spits | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spit | present | the fire | likewise property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hold | could | horses = horse | of partridges and pheasants | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past · do-support | horses = horse not said here | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «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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