Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 17
Every-body was in great fright.
Who acts: body · What happens: be · To what, where: great fright
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 (body), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 body | det |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Every | punct |
| 3 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fright | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fright | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 fright | case |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fright | amod |
| 7 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fright | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | every body | great fright | 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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