The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 88

About fifteen or sixteen years after, the King and Queen being gone to one of their houses of pleasure, the young Princess happened one day to divert herself running up and down the palace; when going up from one apartment to another, she came into a little room on the top of a tower, where a good old woman, alone, was spinning with her spindle.

Who acts: King, young Princess, Princess · What happens: be, happen, divert, run up, go up, come · To what, where: one, Princess, one apartment, little room

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 (King, young Princess, Princess), 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	About	about	ADV	_	2 fifteen	advmod
2	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 sixteen	cc
4	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 fifteen	conj
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gone	obl:unmarked
6	after	after	ADV	_	5 years	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 King	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 gone	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Queen	cc
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 King	conj
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 gone	cop
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 gone	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 houses	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 houses	nmod:poss
18	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 pleasure	case
20	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 houses	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 happened	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Princess	det
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Princess	amod
24	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 happened	nsubj
25	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	conj
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 day	nummod
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 happened	obl:unmarked
28	to	to	PART	_	29 divert	mark
29	divert	divert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 happened	xcomp
30	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 divert	obj
31	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 divert	advcl
32	up	up	ADV	_	31 running	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 palace	cc
34	down	down	ADP	_	36 palace	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 palace	det
36	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 up	conj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 going	punct
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 going	advmod
39	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 gone	conj
40	up	up	ADV	_	39 going	advmod
41	from	from	ADP	_	43 apartment	case
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 apartment	nummod
43	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 going	obl
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 another	case
45	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	43 apartment	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 came	punct
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 came	nsubj
48	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 going	conj
49	into	into	ADP	_	52 room	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 room	det
51	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 room	amod
52	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 came	obl
53	on	on	ADP	_	55 top	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 top	det
55	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 room	nmod
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 tower	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 tower	det
58	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 top	nmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 woman	punct
60	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	64 woman	advmod
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 woman	det
62	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 woman	amod
63	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 woman	amod
64	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 tower	appos
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 alone	punct
66	alone	alone	ADV	_	64 woman	advmod
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 spinning	punct
68	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	69 spinning	aux
69	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 came	advcl
70	with	with	ADP	_	72 spindle	case
71	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	72 spindle	nmod:poss
72	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 spinning	obl
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	the King and Queen		one of King's houses of pleasure		year	go property	tree rules
2	happen	past	the young Princess				day		tree rules
3	divert	to-infinitive	the young Princess not said here	Princess					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer
4	run up	gerund	the young Princess not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go up	gerund	the King and Queen not said here			one apartment to another			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	come	past	Princess			a little room on the top of a tower			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
7	spin	past · progressive	Princess not said here					with Princess's spindle	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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