The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 94
She had no sooner taken the spindle into her hand, than, whether being very hasty at it, somewhat unhandy, or that the decree of the Fairy had so ordained it, it ran into her hand, and she fell down in a swoon.
Who acts: Princess, decree, Fairy · What happens: have, take, be, ordain, run, fall down · To what, where: spindle, hand, decree, swoon
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 (Princess, decree, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 sooner | det |
| 4 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 taken | advmod |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spindle | det |
| 7 | spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hasty | punct |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 hasty | mark |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hasty | punct |
| 14 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 17 hasty | mark |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 hasty | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 hasty | advmod |
| 17 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 taken | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hasty | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 unhandy | punct |
| 21 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 22 unhandy | advmod |
| 22 | unhandy | unhandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hasty | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 ordained | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 ordained | cc |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 ordained | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 decree | det |
| 27 | decree | decree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 ordained | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Fairy | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Fairy | det |
| 30 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 decree | nmod |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 ordained | aux |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 ordained | advmod |
| 33 | ordained | ordain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 unhandy | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 ordained | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 ran | punct |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 ran | nsubj |
| 37 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 hand | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 hand | nmod:poss |
| 40 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ran | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 fell | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 fell | cc |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 fell | nsubj |
| 44 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 45 | down | down | ADV | _ | 44 fell | advmod |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 swoon | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 swoon | det |
| 48 | swoon | swoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 fell | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | participle | Princess not said here | the spindle | Princess's hand | soon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spindle=Theme into hand=Destination | ||
| 3 | is | gerund | Princess not said here | hand | hasty property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be | Princess not said here | somewhat property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | ordain | past · perfect · passive | the decree of the Fairy | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme it=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | run | past | decree | into Princess's hand result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into hand=Result | ||||
| 7 | fall down | past | Princess | a swoon | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in swoon=Location | |||
| 8 | decree | the Fairy | nom decree «communication intransitive»: of=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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