The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 6
After having somewhat recovered her senses, she took up the key, locked the door, and went up stairs into her chamber to recover herself; but she could not, so much was she frightened.
Who acts: unhappiness · What happens: have, recover, take up, lock, go up, frighten · To what, where: senses, key, door, stairs, chamber, unhappiness
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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 having | mark |
| 2 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 took | advcl |
| 3 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 4 recovered | advmod |
| 4 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 having | ccomp |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 senses | nmod:poss |
| 6 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 recovered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 having | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 took | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 key | det |
| 12 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 locked | punct |
| 14 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 locked | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 locked | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 went | compound:prt |
| 21 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 went | obl |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 chamber | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 24 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 recover | mark |
| 26 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 went | advcl |
| 27 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 recover | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 could | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 could | cc |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 could | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | advcl |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 could | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 frightened | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 much | advmod |
| 35 | much | much | ADV | _ | 38 frightened | advmod |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 frightened | aux:pass |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 took | parataxis |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | unhappiness not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | recover | past | unhappiness not said here | unhappiness's senses | somewhat property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Theme | |||
| 3 | take up | past | unhappiness | the key | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lock | past | unhappiness not said here | the door | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 5 | go up | past | unhappiness not said here | stairs | unhappiness's chamber | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 6 | recover | to-infinitive | unhappiness not said here | unhappiness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | ||||
| 7 | frighten | past · passive | unhappiness | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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