The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 27
"Sister Anne" (for that was her name), "go up I beg you, upon the top of the tower, and look if my brothers are not coming; they promised me that they would come to-day, and if you see them, give them a sign to make haste."
Who acts: that, floor, brothers, you · What happens: be, go up, beg, look, not come, promise · To what, where: you, floor, brothers, sign, haste
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 (that, floor, brothers, you), 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 | _ | 3 Anne | punct |
| 2 | Sister | Sister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Anne | compound |
| 3 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Anne | punct |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 name | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 name | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 name | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 name | cop |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Anne | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 name | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 Anne | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 go | compound:prt |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 beg | nsubj |
| 17 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | parataxis |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 beg | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 top | punct |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 top | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 top | det |
| 22 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beg | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 tower | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tower | det |
| 25 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 top | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 look | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 look | cc |
| 28 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | parataxis |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 coming | mark |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 31 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 coming | nsubj |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 coming | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 coming | advmod |
| 34 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 look | advcl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 promised | punct |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 promised | nsubj |
| 37 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | advcl |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 promised | iobj |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 come | mark |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 come | nsubj |
| 41 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 come | aux |
| 42 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 promised | xcomp |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 day | case |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 to | punct |
| 45 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 come | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 give | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 give | cc |
| 48 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 50 see | mark |
| 49 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 50 see | nsubj |
| 50 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 give | advcl |
| 51 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 see | obj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 see | punct |
| 53 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | conj |
| 54 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 give | iobj |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 sign | det |
| 56 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 give | obj |
| 57 | to | to | PART | _ | 58 make | mark |
| 58 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 53 give | advcl |
| 59 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 make | obj |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Anne | punct |
| 61 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Anne | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that | for Anne's name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go up in a quote | infinitive | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | floor | you | upon the top of the tower | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 4 | look in a quote | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | not come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · progressive | my brothers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | promise speech: promise in a quote | past | brothers = brother | floor | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | come not said to happen, in a quote | would | brothers = brother | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | brothers = brother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | give in a quote | infinitive | a sign | brothers = brother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient sign=Theme | ||||
| 10 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product |
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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