The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 14
After putting him off several times, she was forced to bring him the key.
Who acts: affair · What happens: put off, force, bring · To what, where: Beard, affair, key
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 (affair), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 putting | mark |
| 2 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 forced | advcl |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 putting | obj |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 putting | compound:prt |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 times | amod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 putting | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 putting | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forced | aux:pass |
| 10 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 bring | mark |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 forced | xcomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 key | det |
| 15 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put off | gerund | Beard | time | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal | ||||
| 2 | force | past · passive | affair | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | affair not said here | the key | Beard | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination key=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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