Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 62
"I choose Allin-a-Dale," she said, blushing.
Who acts: Allin · What happens: choose, say, blush · To what, where: Allin · 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 (Allin), 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 | _ | 3 choose | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 choose | nsubj |
| 3 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | Allin | Allin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 choose | obj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Dale | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Dale | det |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Dale | punct |
| 8 | Dale | Dale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Allin | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 choose | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 blushing | punct |
| 14 | blushing | blush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose in a quote | present | Allin | Allin | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent allin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Allin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | blush | gerund | Allin not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «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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