Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 3
In this forest there lived a band of daring men called out-laws.
Who acts: daring men · What happens: live, dare, call out · To what, where: band, forest, laws
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 (daring men), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 forest | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 forest | det |
| 3 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lived | advmod |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 band | det |
| 7 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 9 | daring | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 men | amod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 band | nmod |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 men | acl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 called | compound:prt |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 laws | punct |
| 14 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 called | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a band of daring men | this forest; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme band=Location | ||||
| 2 | dare | gerund | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | participle | daring men not said here | laws | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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