Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 19
This young man was dressed in a fine suit of bright red cloth; and, as he tripped gayly along the road, he seemed to be as happy as the day.
Who acts: Hood · What happens: dress, trip, seem, be · To what, where: young man, fine suit, road
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 (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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dressed | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | aux:pass |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 suit | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 suit | det |
| 8 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 suit | amod |
| 9 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dressed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cloth | case |
| 11 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cloth | amod |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cloth | amod |
| 13 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 suit | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 seemed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 seemed | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 and | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 tripped | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tripped | nsubj |
| 19 | tripped | trip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 seemed | advcl |
| 20 | gayly | gayly | ADV | _ | 19 tripped | advmod |
| 21 | along | along | ADP | _ | 23 road | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 road | det |
| 23 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tripped | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tripped | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 seemed | nsubj |
| 26 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 happy | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 happy | cop |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | _ | 30 happy | advmod |
| 30 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 seemed | xcomp |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 day | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 day | det |
| 33 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 happy | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | this young man | a fine suit of bright red cloth | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | trip | past | Hood | the road | gayly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | seem | past | Hood | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | Hood not said here | day | happy property | tree rules |
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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