The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3, sentence 14
He came into a spacious outward court, where everything he saw might have frozen up the most fearless person with horror.
Who acts: Scarce · What happens: come, see, freeze up · To what, where: spacious outward court, everything
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarce), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 court | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 court | det |
| 5 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 court | amod |
| 6 | outward | outward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 court | amod |
| 7 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 frozen | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 frozen | advmod |
| 10 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 everything | acl:relcl |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 frozen | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 frozen | aux |
| 15 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 court | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 frozen | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 person | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 fearless | advmod |
| 19 | fearless | fearless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 person | amod |
| 20 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 frozen | advcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 horror | case |
| 22 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 person | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Scarce | a spacious outward court | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into court=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Scarce | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | freeze up | might · perfect · passive | everything | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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