Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 26

She was not afraid, for in the dark-en-ing twi-light they looked indeed like cattle.

Who acts: care, objects · What happens: not be, e, look · To what, where: ing twi light

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 (care, objects), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 afraid	advmod
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 light	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	16 light	case
7	in	in	ADP	_	16 light	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 light	det
9	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 en	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 dark	punct
11	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ing	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 en	punct
13	ing	e	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 light	amod
14	twi	twi	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 light	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 twi	punct
16	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 afraid	conj
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looked	nsubj
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 light	acl:relcl
19	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	18 looked	advmod
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 cattle	case
21	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 looked	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	care		afraid property	tree rules
2	e	gerund				tree rules
3	look	past	objects = object	the ing twi light not said here	like cattle; indeed property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme light=Attribute

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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