The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 95
The good old woman not knowing very well what to do in this affair, cried out for help.
Who acts: good old woman · What happens: not know, do, cry out · To what, where: affair · 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 (good old woman), 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 | 4 woman | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 knowing | advmod |
| 6 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 woman | acl |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 well | advmod |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 what | advmod |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 do | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 knowing | ccomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 affair | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 affair | det |
| 14 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 woman | punct |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 cried | compound:prt |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 help | case |
| 19 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cried | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | gerund | the good old woman not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | this affair | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | the good old woman | for help | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
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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