Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 37
Indeed," he said, "I did not think that it could be done so soon.
Who acts: King, I · What happens: say, not think, do · To what, where: answer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Three Answers.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, I), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 think | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 think | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 think | advmod |
| 11 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 done | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 done | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 done | aux:pass |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 think | ccomp |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 soon | advmod |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 done | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | King | indeed property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | could · passive | answer | soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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