The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 45
"Anne, sister Anne, dost thou see nobody coming?"
Who acts: Anne, nobody · What happens: do, see, come · To what, where: thou
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 (Anne, nobody), 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 | _ | 2 Anne | punct |
| 2 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Anne | punct |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Anne | compound |
| 5 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Anne | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dost | punct |
| 7 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Anne | acl:relcl |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 dost | obj |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dost | xcomp |
| 10 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 coming | nsubj |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 see | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 coming | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | Anne and sister Anne not said here | thou | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | Anne and sister Anne not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | gerund | nobody | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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