The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 82

The old Fairy's turn coming next, with a head shaking more with spite than age, she said, that the Princess should have her hand pierced with a spindle, and die of the wound.

Who acts: old turn, head, Princess, hand · What happens: come, shake, say, have, pierce, die · To what, where: more, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

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 turn, head, Princess, hand), 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	5 turn	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turn	amod
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 turn	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Fairy	case
5	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
6	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 turn	acl
7	next	next	ADV	_	6 coming	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shaking	punct
9	with	with	SCONJ	_	12 shaking	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 head	det
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shaking	nsubj
12	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 coming	conj
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 shaking	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 spite	case
15	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shaking	obl
16	than	than	ADP	_	17 age	case
17	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shaking	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 turn	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 have	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Princess	det
24	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hand	nmod:poss
28	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
29	pierced	pierce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 have	xcomp
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 spindle	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 spindle	det
32	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pierced	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 die	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 die	cc
35	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 have	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 wound	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 wound	det
38	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 die	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	gerund	Fairy's old turn not said here			next property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shake	gerund	a head	more	than age	with spite	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent more=Patient with spite=Co-Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	Fairy's old turn				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	should	the Princess	Princess's hand			tree rules
5	pierce	participle	Princess's hand not said here			with a spindle	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with spindle=Instrument
6	die	infinitive	the Princess not said here			of the wound	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of wound=Causer

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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