The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3, sentence 5

When a hundred years were gone and past, the son of the King then reigning, and who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, being gone a-hunting on that side of the country, asked, what were those towers which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood?

Who acts: hundred years, son, family · What happens: be, reign, sleep, hunt, ask, see · To what, where: that, side, towers, family, middle

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 (hundred years, son, family), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 gone	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hundred	det
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gone	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	cop
6	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 past	cc
8	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gone	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 son	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 son	det
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reigning	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 King	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 son	nmod
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 reigning	advmod
16	reigning	reign	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 gone	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 family	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 family	cc
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 family	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 family	cop
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 family	case
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	23 family	det
23	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 that	case
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 family	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 Princess	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Princess	det
28	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 Princess	amod
29	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 that	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gone	punct
31	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 gone	cop
32	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 family	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 hunting	det
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 a	punct
35	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 gone	advcl
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 side	case
37	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 side	det
38	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hunting	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 country	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 country	det
41	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 side	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 asked	punct
43	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 family	acl:relcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 towers	punct
45	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	48 towers	nsubj
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 towers	cop
47	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	48 towers	det
48	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 family	conj
49	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 saw	obj
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 saw	nsubj
51	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 family	acl:relcl
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 middle	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 middle	det
54	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 saw	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	59 wood	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 wood	det
57	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 wood	amod
58	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 wood	amod
59	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 middle	nmod
60	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	hundred years				gone property	tree rules
2	be		hundred years not said here					tree rules
3	reign	gerund	the son of the King			then		tree rules
4	is	past			that		of another family and that towers	tree rules
5	sleep	gerund						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	gerund					go property	tree rules
7	hunt	gerund			that side of the country			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
8	ask speech: ask	past	another family and that towers not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is a	past	another family and that towers	that towers				tree rules
10	see	past	son	another family and that towers	the middle of a great thick wood			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus

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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