Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 61
"Now whom do you choose?" said Robin to the maiden.
Who acts: maiden, Robin · What happens: choose, say · To what, where: maiden · 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 (maiden, Robin), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 choose | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 choose | advmod |
| 3 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 choose | obj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 choose | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 choose | nsubj |
| 6 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 choose | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 choose | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Robin | Robin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 maiden | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 maiden | det |
| 13 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose in a quote | present · do-support | the maiden = maiden | now | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Robin | the maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to maiden=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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