The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 20

Upon this she threw herself at her husband's feet, and begged his pardon with all the signs of a true repentance for her disobedience.

Who acts: Madam, husband · What happens: throw, beg, pardon, sign, disobey · To what, where: Madam, feet, pardon, true repentance

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 (Madam, husband), 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 threw	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 threw	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 feet	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 husband	nmod:poss
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feet	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 husband	case
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 threw	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 begged	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 begged	cc
13	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 threw	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 pardon	nmod:poss
15	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 begged	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 signs	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 signs	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 signs	det
19	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 begged	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 repentance	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 repentance	det
22	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 repentance	amod
23	repentance	repentance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 signs	nmod
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 disobedience	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 disobedience	nmod:poss
26	disobedience	disobedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 repentance	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	Madam	Madam	Madam's husband's feet	upon this	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme upon this=Destination
2	beg speech: request	past	Madam not said here	husband's pardon		with all signs of a true repentance for Madam's disobedience	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient
3	pardon		husband				nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent
4	sign			a true repentance for Madam's disobedience			nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient
5	disobey		Madam				nom disobedience «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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