Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 65
"And thus having ended this merry wedding, The bride looked like a queen: And so they re-turned to the merry green wood, Amongst the leaves so green."
Who acts: bride, men · What happens: have, end, look, re-turn · To what, where: merry wedding
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 (bride, men), 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 | _ | 4 having | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 having | cc |
| 3 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 having | advmod |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 looked | ccomp |
| 5 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 having | obj |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 wedding | det |
| 7 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wedding | amod |
| 8 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ended | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 having | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bride | det |
| 11 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 queen | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 queen | det |
| 15 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 re-turned | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 re-turned | cc |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 re-turned | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 re-turned | nsubj |
| 20 | re-turned | re-turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 looked | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 wood | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wood | det |
| 23 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 wood | amod |
| 24 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 wood | amod |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 re-turned | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 leaves | punct |
| 27 | Amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 29 leaves | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 leaves | det |
| 29 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 re-turned | obl |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 green | advmod |
| 31 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 re-turned | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | gerund | the bride not said here | thus property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | end in a quote | past | this merry wedding | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality wedding=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | look in a quote | past | the bride | like a queen | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | re-turn in a quote | past | men = man | to the merry green wood; amongst the leaves | 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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