Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 27

It was no easy thing for the king's men to open the roads; and while they were doing it, the king grew tired of waiting, and went back to London.

Who acts: fool, roads, king · What happens: be, open, do, grow, wait, go back · To what, where: easy thing, roads, fool, London

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 (fool, roads, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 thing	det
4	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 men	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 men	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thing	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 open	mark
12	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 men	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 roads	det
14	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 open	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 grew	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 grew	cc
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 doing	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 doing	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 doing	aux
20	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 grew	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 doing	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 doing	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 king	det
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grew	nsubj
25	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	parataxis
26	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 grew	xcomp
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 waiting	mark
28	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 tired	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 went	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 went	cc
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 grew	conj
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 went	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 London	case
34	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 went	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	fool	no easy thing		for the king's men	tree rules
2	open	to-infinitive	fool not said here	the roads			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=Theme
3	do	past · progressive	roads = road	fool			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	grow	past	the king			tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wait	gerund	the king not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	go back	past	the king not said here		London		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to london=Result

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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