Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 36

But her father has prom-ised her to a rich old man whom she never saw.

Who acts: father, bride · What happens: is, not see · To what, where: bride, rich old man

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 (father, bride), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 ised	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ised	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ised	aux
5	prom	prom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ised	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 prom	punct
7	ised	is	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ised	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 man	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
11	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ised	obl
14	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 saw	obj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 saw	advmod
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 man	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	bride's father	bride				to a rich old man	tree rules
2	not see	past	bride	a rich old man					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus

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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