The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 78

The old Fairy fancied she was slighted, and muttered some threat between her teeth.

Who acts: old Fairy · What happens: fancy, slight, mutter · To what, where: company, threat

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 (old Fairy), 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 Fairy	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Fairy	amod
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fancied	nsubj
4	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 slighted	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 slighted	aux:pass
7	slighted	slight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fancied	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 muttered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 muttered	cc
10	muttered	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fancied	conj
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 threat	det
12	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 muttered	obj
13	between	between	ADP	_	15 teeth	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 teeth	nmod:poss
15	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 threat	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fancied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	the old Fairy			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	slight	past · passive		company		tree rules
3	mutter speech: assert	past	the old Fairy not said here	some threat	between company's teeth	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threat=Topic

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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