Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 32
Soon there was hot fighting in every part of the castle.
What happens: fight · To what, where: part
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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 fighting | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 fighting | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fighting | aux |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fighting | amod |
| 5 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 part | case |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 part | det |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fighting | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 part | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fighting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past · progressive | every part of the castle; there | soon property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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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