Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 2
The most famous of these was Sher-wood forest, where the king often went to hunt deer.
Who acts: these, king · What happens: be, go, hunt · To what, where: deer
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 (these, king), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 famous | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 famous | advmod |
| 3 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 5 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 forest | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forest | cop |
| 7 | Sher | Sher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 forest | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sher | punct |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forest | compound |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 famous | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 went | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | nsubj |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forest | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 hunt | mark |
| 18 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 went | xcomp |
| 19 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hunt | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 famous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | these | of Sher wood forest | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the king | often property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hunt | to-infinitive | the king not said here | deer | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=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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