Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Bruce and the Spider., sentence 26
The lesson which the little crea-ture had taught the king was never for-got-ten.
What happens: teach, get · To what, where: little crea ture, king, ten
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lesson | det |
| 2 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 taught | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ture | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ture | amod |
| 6 | crea | crea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ture | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 crea | punct |
| 8 | ture | ture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 taught | aux |
| 10 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lesson | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taught | obj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 for | cop |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 for | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 2 lesson | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 for | punct |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 for | ccomp |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 ten | punct |
| 19 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 got | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lesson | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the little crea ture | the king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | participle | ten | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ten=Stimulus |
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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