Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 21
The queen could step on it now, as on a beautiful carpet.
Who acts: queen · What happens: step · To what, where: cloak
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 (queen), 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 | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 step | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 step | aux |
| 4 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 step | obl |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 step | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carpet | punct |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 carpet | case |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 carpet | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 carpet | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 carpet | amod |
| 13 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 step | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 step | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | could | the queen | cloak | now | as a beautiful carpet | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory |
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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