Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 4
"Sad news, sad news," said the abbot; and then he told him all that had happened.
Who acts: Sad news, news, that · What happens: say, tell, happen · To what, where: abbot · 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 (Sad news, news, that), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 news | punct |
| 2 | Sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 news | amod |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 news | punct |
| 5 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 news | amod |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 news | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 news | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 news | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 abbot | det |
| 11 | abbot | abbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 told | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 told | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | nsubj |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 happened | det:predet |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 happened | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 happened | aux |
| 21 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 told | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Sad news and sad news | the abbot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent abbot=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | news | abbot | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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