Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Bruce and the Spider., sentence 20
"I, too, will try a seventh time!" cried Bruce.
Who acts: Bruce · What happens: try, cry · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Bruce), 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 | _ | 7 try | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 try | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 try | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 too | punct |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 try | aux |
| 7 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cried | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 try | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 try | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 try | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Bruce | Bruce | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | future | Bruce | time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Bruce | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent 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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