Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 30
She looked around, and there stood the Black Douglas himself.
Who acts: voice · What happens: look around, stand · To what, where: Black Douglas
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 (voice), 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 | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | around | around | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stood | cc |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 stood | advmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Douglas | det |
| 9 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Douglas | compound |
| 10 | Douglas | Douglas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 stood | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look around | past | voice | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | voice not said here | the Black Douglas | there | Douglas obl | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer douglas=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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