The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 3

After some moments she began to perceive that the floor was all covered over with clotted blood, in which were reflected the bodies of several dead women ranged against the walls: these were all the wives whom Blue Beard had married and murdered one after another.

Who acts: unhappiness, these · What happens: begin, perceive, cover over, clot, reflect, range · To what, where: moments, floor, bodies, several dead women, wives, one

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 (unhappiness, these), 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	ADP	_	3 moments	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 moments	det
3	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 married	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 moments	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 perceive	mark
7	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 covered	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 floor	det
10	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 covered	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 covered	aux:pass
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 covered	advmod
13	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 perceive	advcl
14	over	over	ADV	_	13 covered	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 blood	case
16	clotted	clot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 blood	amod
17	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 covered	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 reflected	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 reflected	obl
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 reflected	aux:pass
22	reflected	reflect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 covered	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bodies	det
24	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 reflected	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 women	case
26	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 women	amod
27	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 women	amod
28	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 bodies	nmod
29	ranged	range	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 women	acl
30	against	against	ADP	_	32 walls	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 walls	det
32	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ranged	obl
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 wives	punct
34	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	38 wives	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 wives	cop
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 wives	det:predet
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 wives	det
38	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 married	nsubj:pass
39	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 married	obl
40	Blue	Blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 Beard	amod
41	Beard	Beard	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 married	nsubj:pass
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 married	aux
43	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 murdered	cc
45	murdered	murder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 married	conj
46	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 murdered	obj
47	after	after	ADP	_	48 another	case
48	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	46 one	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	43 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	unhappiness	some moments not said here			tree rules
2	perceive	to-infinitive	unhappiness not said here				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	cover over	past · passive		the floor		with clotted blood; all, over property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with blood=Theme
4	clot	participle					tree rules
5	reflect	past · passive		the bodies of several dead women			tree rules
6	range	participle		several dead women not said here		against the walls	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
7	is a	past	these	all wives			tree rules
8	marry	past · perfect · passive		all wives	moment		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	murder	past		one	after another		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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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