The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 80
In the mean while all the Fairies began to give their gifts to the Princess.
Who acts: Fairies, King · What happens: begin, give, gift · To what, where: mean, gifts, Princess
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 (Fairies, King), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 mean | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mean | det |
| 3 | mean | mean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | obl |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 began | mark |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 Fairies | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fairies | det |
| 7 | Fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 12 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 give | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Princess | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Princess | det |
| 15 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | all Fairies | the mean | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | all Fairies not said here | King's gifts | the Princess | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to princess=Recipient | |||
| 3 | gift | King | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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