The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3, sentence 7

The common opinion was that an Ogre[1] lived there, and that he carried thither all the little children he could catch, that he might eat them up at his leisure, without any-body's being able to follow him, as having himself, only, the power to pass thro' the wood.

Who acts: common opinion, son, body · What happens: be, carry, catch, eat up, follow, have · To what, where: little children, towers, leisure, son, thro

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 (common opinion, son, body), 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	3 opinion	det
2	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 opinion	amod
3	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lived	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 lived	mark
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Ogre	det
7	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 lived	nsubj
8	[	[	PUNCT	_	9 1	punct
9	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 Ogre	flat
10	]	]	PUNCT	_	7 Ogre	punct
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 lived	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 catch	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 catch	cc
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 carried	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 carried	nsubj
17	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 catch	advcl
18	thither	thither	ADV	_	19 all	advmod
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 children	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 children	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 children	amod
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 carried	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 catch	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 catch	aux
25	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 lived	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 eat	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 eat	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 eat	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 eat	aux
30	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 catch	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 eat	obj
32	up	up	ADP	_	30 eat	compound:prt
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 leisure	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 leisure	nmod:poss
35	leisure	leisure	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eat	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 able	punct
37	without	without	SCONJ	_	43 able	mark
38	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	40 body	det
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 any	punct
40	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 able	nsubj
41	's	's	PART	_	40 body	case
42	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 able	cop
43	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 catch	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 follow	mark
45	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 able	xcomp
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 follow	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 having	punct
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 having	mark
49	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 catch	advcl
50	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	49 having	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 power	punct
52	only	only	ADV	_	55 power	advmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 power	punct
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 power	det
55	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl
56	to	to	PART	_	57 pass	mark
57	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 power	acl
58	thro	thro	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 pass	obj
59	'	'	PUNCT	_	58 thro	punct
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 wood	det
61	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 pass	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the common opinion		there	the power obl; live property	tree rules
2	carry	past	son	all little children			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
3	catch	could	son				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	eat up	might	son	towers = tower	son's leisure		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	is	gerund	any body			able property	tree rules
6	follow	to-infinitive	any body not said here	son			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	have	gerund	son not said here	son			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
8	pass	to-infinitive	the common opinion not said here	thro			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thro=Recipient wood=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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