The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 49
The distressed wife came down, and threw herself at his feet, all in tears, with her hair about her shoulders.
Who acts: distressed wife · What happens: distress, come down, throw · To what, where: way, feet
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 (distressed wife), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wife | det |
| 2 | distressed | distress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wife | amod |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 threw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 threw | cc |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 threw | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 threw | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tears | punct |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 tears | det |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 tears | case |
| 16 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 feet | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hair | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 hair | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hair | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obl |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 shoulders | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 23 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hair | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distress | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | come down | past | the distressed wife | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | the distressed wife not said here | way | God's feet and all tears | with way's hair about way's shoulders | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at foot=Destination |
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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