Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 10
It happened to be a hol-i-day, and most of the English soldiers in the cas-tle were eating and drinking and having a merry time.
Who acts: It, most English soldiers · What happens: happen, be, eat, drink, have · To what, where: i day
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Black Douglas.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, most English soldiers), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 day | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 day | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 6 | hol | hol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 i | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 hol | punct |
| 8 | i | i | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 day | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 i | punct |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 soldiers | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 soldiers | cc |
| 13 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 soldiers | amod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 soldiers | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 soldiers | det |
| 16 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 soldiers | amod |
| 17 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 eating | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 cas | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cas | det |
| 20 | cas | ca | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 soldiers | nmod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 tle | punct |
| 22 | tle | tle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cas | conj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 eating | aux |
| 24 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 happened | advcl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 drinking | cc |
| 26 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 eating | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 having | cc |
| 28 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 eating | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 time | det |
| 30 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 time | amod |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 having | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a i day | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | eat | past · progressive | the most English soldiers in the cas and tle | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drink | gerund | the most English soldiers in the cas and tle not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | have | gerund | the most English soldiers in the cas and tle not said here | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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