The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 42
"Alas! no, my dear sister, I see a flock of sheep."
Who acts: sister · What happens: see · To what, where: flock
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 (sister), 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 | _ | 8 sister | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 8 sister | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 sister | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sister | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sister | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sister | amod |
| 8 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sister | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 flock | det |
| 13 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sheep | case |
| 15 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 flock | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sister | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sister | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | sister | a flock of sheep | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flock=Stimulus |
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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