Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 15
She saw the handsome young man with the scar-let cloak, stand-ing by the side of it.
Who acts: E-liz-a-beth · What happens: see, let, stand · To what, where: handsome young man, ing
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 (E-liz-a-beth), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 4 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 cloak | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cloak | det |
| 9 | scar | scar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 let | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 scar | punct |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cloak | amod |
| 12 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stand | punct |
| 14 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 saw | conj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ing | punct |
| 16 | ing | ing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stand | obl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 side | det |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stand | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 side | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | E-liz-a-beth | the handsome young man | with the let cloak | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | let | participle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | stand | infinitive | E-liz-a-beth not said here | ing | by the side of side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=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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