The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 11
"What," said he, "is not the key of my closet among the rest?"
Who acts: Beard · What happens: say, not be · To what, where: key · 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), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 said | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 key | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 he | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 he | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 key | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 key | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 key | det |
| 12 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 closet | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 closet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 key | nmod |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 rest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rest | det |
| 18 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 closet | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 key | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 key | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | Beard | the key | of my closet among the rest | tree rules |
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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