The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3, sentence 29

The Prince told him that he lost his way in the forest, as he was hunting, and that he had lain at the cottage of a collier, who gave him cheese and brown bread.

Who acts: Prince, collier · What happens: tell, lose, hunt, lie, give · To what, where: father, way, forest, cottage, cheese, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Prince, collier), 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	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 lost	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lost	nsubj
7	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 way	nmod:poss
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 forest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forest	det
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hunting	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 hunting	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hunting	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hunting	aux
17	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lost	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lain	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lain	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 lain	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lain	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lain	aux
23	lain	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 cottage	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cottage	det
26	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lain	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 collier	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 collier	det
29	collier	collier	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cottage	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gave	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 gave	nsubj
32	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 collier	acl:relcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 gave	iobj
34	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gave	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 bread	cc
36	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 bread	amod
37	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cheese	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Prince		father		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lose	past	Prince	Prince's way		the forest	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
3	hunt	past · progressive	Prince				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lie	past · perfect	Prince			the cottage of a collier	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at cottage=Location
5	give	past	a collier	cheese and brown bread	Prince		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cheese=Theme

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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