Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 1
In the rude days of King Rich-ard and King John there were many great woods in England.
Who acts: many great woods · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many great woods), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 were | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ard | case |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ard | nsubj |
| 7 | Rich | Rich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ard | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ard | punct |
| 9 | ard | ard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 days | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 John | cc |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 John | nmod:desc |
| 12 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ard | conj |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 were | expl |
| 14 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woods | amod |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woods | amod |
| 17 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 were | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 England | case |
| 19 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 woods | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | many great woods in England | there | day | vn exist-47.1 «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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