Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Philip Sidney., sentence 15
The wist-ful look in the poor man's face spoke plainer than words.
Who acts: ful look · What happens: speak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Philip Sidney.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ful look), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 look | det |
| 2 | wist | wist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ful | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 wist | punct |
| 4 | ful | ful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 look | amod |
| 5 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spoke | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 face | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 man | case |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | nmod |
| 12 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | plainer | plain | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 spoke | xcomp |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 words | case |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 plainer | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the ful look in the poor man's face | plain property | vn talk-37.5 «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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