The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3, sentence 20
He approached with trembling and admiration, and fell down before her upon his knees.
Who acts: Scarce · What happens: approach, fall down · To what, where: knees
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 approached | nsubj |
| 2 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 trembling | case |
| 4 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 approached | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 admiration | cc |
| 6 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trembling | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fell | cc |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 approached | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 fell | compound:prt |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 knees | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 knees | nmod:poss |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 knees | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 knees | nmod:poss |
| 15 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fell | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | Scarce | with trembling and admiration | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with trembling=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | fall down | past | Scarce not said here | Princess's knees | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before knee=Location |
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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