Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Bruce and the Spider., sentence 11
He watched her as she toiled slowly and with great care.
Who acts: use, Scotland · What happens: watch, toil · To what, where: Scotland
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Bruce and the Spider.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use, Scotland), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 watched | obj |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 toiled | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 toiled | nsubj |
| 6 | toiled | toil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 watched | advcl |
| 7 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 6 toiled | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 care | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 care | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 care | amod |
| 11 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 toiled | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | use | Scotland | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | toil | past | Scotland | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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