Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 45

Then Robin made haste to dress himself as a harper; and in the after-noon he stood in the door of the church.

Who acts: Robin, haste · What happens: make, dress, stand · To what, where: haste, Robin, door

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, haste), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 made	advmod
2	Robin	Robin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 dress	mark
6	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	xcomp
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 dress	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 harper	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 harper	det
10	harper	harper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dress	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stood	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 noon	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 noon	det
15	after	after	ADP	_	17 noon	case
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 after	punct
17	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stood	nsubj
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 door	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 door	det
22	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 church	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 church	det
25	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 door	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Robin	haste		then		tree rules
2	dress	to-infinitive	haste not said here	Robin			as a harper	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	stand	past	Robin		the door of the church	noon		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in door=Location

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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