Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 13
It was E-liz-a-beth, the Queen of England, with her train of gen-tle-wom-en and waiting maids.
Who acts: name · What happens: be, wait · To what, where: E-liz-a-beth, maids
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name), 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 | 3 E-liz-a-beth | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 E-liz-a-beth | cop |
| 3 | E-liz-a-beth | E-liz-a-beth | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Queen | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 E-liz-a-beth | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 England | case |
| 8 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Queen | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 train | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 train | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 train | nmod:poss |
| 12 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 E-liz-a-beth | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tle | case |
| 14 | gen | gen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tle | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 gen | punct |
| 16 | tle | tle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 en | obl |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 tle | punct |
| 18 | wom | wom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 en | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 en | punct |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 train | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 waiting | cc |
| 22 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 en | conj |
| 23 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 waiting | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 E-liz-a-beth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | name | E-liz-a-beth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | gerund | name not said here | maids | 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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