Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 39
And now comes my third and last question: What do I think?"
Who acts: I, my · What happens: come, think, question · To what, where: third question
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 (I, my), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 comes | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 comes | advmod |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 question | nmod:poss |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 question | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 last | cc |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 third | conj |
| 8 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 10 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 think | obj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 think | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 think | nsubj |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 comes | parataxis |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | my third question | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location question=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present · do-support | I | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | question | my | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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