The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 31
In the mean while Blue Beard, holding a great scimitar in his hand, cried out as loud as he could bawl to his wife:
Who acts: mean, grass · What happens: hold, cry out, bawl · To what, where: great scimitar, hand, wife
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 (mean, grass), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 mean | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mean | det |
| 3 | mean | mean | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 Beard | mark |
| 5 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Beard | amod |
| 6 | Beard | Beard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mean | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 8 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 mean | acl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 scimitar | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 scimitar | amod |
| 11 | scimitar | scimitar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 holding | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 holding | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 hand | acl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 cried | compound:prt |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 loud | advmod |
| 19 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cried | xcomp |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 bawl | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 bawl | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 bawl | aux |
| 23 | bawl | bawl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 loud | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 wife | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wife | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bawl | obl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | gerund | the mean not said here | a great scimitar | Beard's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent scimitar=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | participle | Beard's hand not said here | loud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bawl speech: other | could | grass | grass's wife | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/8/31/