The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 51

The poor lady turning about to him, and looking at him with dying eyes, desired him to afford her one little moment to recollect herself.

Who acts: poor lady · What happens: turn about, look, die, desire, afford, recollect · To what, where: Beard, way

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 (poor lady), 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 lady	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lady	amod
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 desired	nsubj
4	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 lady	acl
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 turning	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turning	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 looking	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 looking	cc
10	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 turning	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 looking	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 eyes	case
14	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 eyes	amod
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 looking	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lady	punct
17	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 desired	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 afford	mark
20	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 desired	xcomp
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 afford	obj
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 moment	nummod
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 moment	amod
24	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 afford	obl:unmarked
25	to	to	PART	_	26 recollect	mark
26	recollect	recollect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 afford	advcl
27	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 recollect	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 desired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn about	gerund	the poor lady not said here		Beard		about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result
2	look	gerund	the poor lady not said here				at Beard; with dying eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
3	die	gerund						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	desire	past	the poor lady	Beard				tree rules
5	afford not said to happen	to-infinitive	the poor lady not said here	way		moment		tree rules
6	recollect	to-infinitive	the poor lady not said here	way				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent herself=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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