The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 4
She was like to have died for fear, and the key, which she pulled out of the lock, fell out of her hand.
Who acts: unhappiness · What happens: be, die, pull out, fall · To what, where: key, lock, hand
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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 like | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 like | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 died | mark |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 died | aux |
| 6 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 like | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 fear | case |
| 8 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 died | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 key | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 key | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 key | det |
| 12 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 like | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pulled | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 pulled | obj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pulled | nsubj |
| 16 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 key | parataxis |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 lock | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 lock | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lock | det |
| 20 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pulled | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fell | punct |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 pulled | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | unhappiness | like property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die not said to happen | to-infinitive · perfect | unhappiness not said here | for fear | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for fear=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pull out | past | unhappiness | the key | the lock | tree rules | |||
| 4 | fall | past | unhappiness not said here | unhappiness's hand | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out hand=Location |
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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