Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 12
When the king came, and saw that the road had been blocked up, he was very angry.
Who acts: king · What happens: come, see, block up, be · To what, where: road · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Other Wise Men of Gotham.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 angry | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 blocked | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 road | det |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blocked | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 blocked | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 blocked | aux:pass |
| 13 | blocked | block | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 saw | ccomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 blocked | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 angry | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 angry | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 angry | advmod |
| 19 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | the king not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | block up | past · perfect · passive | the road | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | king | angry property | tree rules |
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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