Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 4
They had done something that was against the laws of the land, and had been forced to hide themselves in the woods to save their lives.
Who acts: men · What happens: do, force, hide, save · To what, where: something, men, woods, lives
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 done | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | aux |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 done | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 was | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 something | acl:relcl |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 laws | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 laws | det |
| 9 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 was | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 land | det |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laws | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 forced | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 forced | cc |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 forced | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 forced | aux:pass |
| 17 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 done | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 hide | mark |
| 19 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 forced | xcomp |
| 20 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 hide | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 woods | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 woods | det |
| 23 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hide | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 save | mark |
| 25 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 hide | advcl |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 lives | nmod:poss |
| 27 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 save | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | men = man | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | force | past · perfect · passive | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | hide | to-infinitive | men = man | the woods | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in wood=Location | ||||
| 4 | save | to-infinitive | men's lives | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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