Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 60
And as they marched into the church, all in a row, the fore-most among them was Allin-a-Dale.
Who acts: men, most · What happens: march, be · To what, where: church, fore Allin Dale
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, most), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 marched | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 marched | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 marched | nsubj |
| 4 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 church | det |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 marched | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 all | punct |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 marched | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 row | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 row | det |
| 12 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 all | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Dale | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Dale | det |
| 15 | fore | fore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Dale | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 fore | punct |
| 17 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 Dale | nsubj |
| 18 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 most | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 Dale | cop |
| 21 | Allin | Allin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Dale | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Dale | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Dale | det |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 a | punct |
| 25 | Dale | Dale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 marched | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 marched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | past | men = man | into the church result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into church=Result | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | most among men | the fore Allin Dale | 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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