The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 91
"I am spinning, my pretty child," said the old woman, who did not know who she was.
Who acts: old woman, Princess · What happens: spin, say, not know, be · To what, where: old woman · 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 woman, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 spinning | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 spinning | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spinning | aux |
| 4 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 child | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 child | nmod:poss |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 child | amod |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spinning | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spinning | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 spinning | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 know | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 know | advmod |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 woman | conj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 know | ccomp |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 who | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 who | cop |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin in a quote | present · progressive | the old woman = woman | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | the old woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | Princess | the old woman | tree rules |
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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