Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 20
"I will not trou-ble him," said Robin Hood, "for I think he is on his way to his wedding."
Who acts: Robin Hood, Hood · What happens: not ble, say, think, be, wed · To what, where: Hood, way · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ble | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 ble | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 ble | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 ble | advmod |
| 5 | trou | trou | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 ble | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ble | punct |
| 7 | ble | ble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ble | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ble | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ble | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Robin | Robin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Hood | compound |
| 13 | Hood | Hood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 think | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 think | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 think | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 think | nsubj |
| 18 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 way | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 way | cop |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 way | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 way | nmod:poss |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 think | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 wedding | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 way | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ble in a quote | future | Robin Hood = hood | Hood | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Robin Hood | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | Robin Hood = hood | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Hood | Hood's way | to Hood's wedding | tree rules | |||
| 5 | wed in a quote | Hood | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=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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