Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 16
Those are nothing to frighten us.
What happens: be, frighten · To what, where: nothing, us
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: 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 nothing | det |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 nothing | cop |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 frighten | mark |
| 5 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 nothing | acl |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 frighten | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | nothing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | frighten | to-infinitive | us | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer |
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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