Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 8
When-ever they had taken anything, it was brought and laid at the feet of Robin Hood, whom they called their king.
Who acts: men · What happens: take, bring, lay, call · To what, where: anything, leader, feet, Robin · 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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 taken | advmod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 taken | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 taken | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 brought | advcl |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 taken | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 brought | aux:pass |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 laid | cc |
| 13 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 brought | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 feet | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 feet | det |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brought | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Robin | case |
| 18 | Robin | Robin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 feet | nmod |
| 19 | Hood | Hood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Robin | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 called | punct |
| 21 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 called | obj |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 called | nsubj |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Robin | acl:relcl |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 king | nmod:poss |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 called | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect | men = man | anything | ever | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | leader | the feet of Robin | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay | participle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | call | past | men = man | Robin | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme king=Result |
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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