Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 24
He had left his scarlet coat at home, and at every step he sighed and groaned.
Who acts: Hood · What happens: leave, sigh, groan · To what, where: scarlet coat, home
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | aux |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 coat | nmod:poss |
| 5 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coat | compound |
| 6 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sighed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sighed | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 step | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 step | det |
| 13 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sighed | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sighed | nsubj |
| 15 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 groaned | cc |
| 17 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sighed | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect | Hood | Hood's scarlet coat | home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent coat=Theme at home=Location | |||
| 2 | sigh | past | Hood | at every step | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | groan | past | Hood not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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