Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 6
There were nearly a hundred of these outlaws, and their leader was a bold fellow called Robin Hood.
Who acts: hundred, leader · What happens: be, call · To what, where: bold fellow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hundred, leader), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 hundred | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hundred | det |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 were | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 outlaws | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 outlaws | det |
| 8 | outlaws | outlaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hundred | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fellow | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fellow | cc |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 leader | nmod:poss |
| 12 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fellow | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fellow | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fellow | det |
| 15 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fellow | amod |
| 16 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 were | parataxis |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 fellow | acl |
| 18 | Robin | Robin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Hood | compound |
| 19 | Hood | Hood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 called | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a hundred of this outlaws | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | men's leader | a bold fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a bold fellow not said here | 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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