Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Miller of the Dee., sentence 2
He was always busy from morning till night, and he was always singing as merrily as any lark.
Who acts: England · What happens: be, sing
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Miller of the Dee.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (England), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 busy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 busy | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 busy | advmod |
| 4 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 morning | case |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 busy | obl |
| 7 | till | till | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 busy | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 singing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 singing | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 singing | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 singing | aux |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 singing | advmod |
| 14 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 busy | advcl |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 merrily | advmod |
| 16 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 14 singing | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 lark | case |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 lark | det |
| 19 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 merrily | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | England | morning; night | always, busy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | England | always, merrily property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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