Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 17
Robin Hood was standing one day under a green tree by the road-side.
Who acts: Robin Hood · What happens: stand · To what, where: green tree
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 Hood), 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 | Robin | Robin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Hood | compound |
| 2 | Hood | Hood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 standing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 standing | aux |
| 4 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 day | nummod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 standing | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 standing | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 side | det |
| 13 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 side | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 road | punct |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 standing | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | Robin Hood | a green tree | day | by the road side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |
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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