Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 53

He was dressed in rich clothing, but was bent with age, and was feeble and gray.

What happens: dress, bend, be · To what, where: Robin, rich clothing

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: 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 dressed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	aux:pass
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 clothing	case
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clothing	amod
6	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dressed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bent	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 bent	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bent	aux:pass
10	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dressed	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 age	case
12	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bent	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 feeble	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 feeble	cc
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 feeble	cop
16	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dressed	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gray	cc
18	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 feeble	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	past · passive	Robin	rich clothing			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	bend	past · passive			with age		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»
3	is	past				feeble property	tree rules
4	be						tree rules

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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