The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3, sentence 17

He then crossed a court paved with marble, went up the stairs, and came into the guard-chamber, where the guards were standing in their ranks, with their muskets upon their shoulders, and snoring as loud as they could.

Who acts: Scarce, guards · What happens: cross, pave, go up, come, stand, snore · To what, where: court, stairs, guard chamber, ranks

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, guards), 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	3 crossed	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 crossed	advmod
3	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 court	det
5	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crossed	obj
6	paved	pave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 court	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 marble	case
8	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paved	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crossed	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 went	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stairs	det
13	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 went	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crossed	parataxis
17	into	into	ADP	_	21 chamber	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 chamber	det
19	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 chamber	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 guard	punct
21	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 standing	punct
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 standing	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 guards	det
25	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 standing	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 standing	aux
27	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 came	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 ranks	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 ranks	nmod:poss
30	ranks	rank	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 standing	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 muskets	punct
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 muskets	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 muskets	nmod:poss
34	muskets	musket	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 standing	obl
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 shoulders	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 shoulders	nmod:poss
37	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 muskets	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 snoring	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 snoring	cc
40	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 standing	advcl
41	as	as	ADV	_	42 loud	advmod
42	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 snoring	xcomp
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 could	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 could	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 loud	advcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	past	Scarce	a court		then		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Patient
2	pave	participle		a court not said here			with marble	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with marble=Theme
3	go up	past	Scarce not said here	the stairs				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	come	past			the guard chamber			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial_Location
5	stand	past · progressive	the guards		guards's ranks		with guards's muskets upon guards's shoulders	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rank=Location
6	snore	gerund	the guards not said here				loud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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