Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 14
He was, indeed, a rude, lawless fellow; but at that time, people did not think of right and wrong as they do now.
Who acts: Robin, people · What happens: be, not think, do · To what, where: rude lawless fellow
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 (Robin, people), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fellow | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fellow | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fellow | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 10 fellow | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fellow | det |
| 7 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fellow | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rude | punct |
| 9 | lawless | lawless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fellow | amod |
| 10 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 think | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 think | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 think | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 think | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 think | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 think | advmod |
| 20 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fellow | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 right | case |
| 22 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 think | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wrong | cc |
| 24 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 right | conj |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 do | nsubj |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 right | advcl |
| 28 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 do | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fellow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Robin | a rude lawless fellow | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | people | time | right property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | do | present | people | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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