Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 23
She was safely over the ugly puddle, and her feet had not touched the mud.
Who acts: queen, ugly puddle · What happens: be, not touch · To what, where: ugly puddle, feet
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, ugly puddle), 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 | 7 puddle | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 puddle | cop |
| 3 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 7 puddle | advmod |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 puddle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 puddle | det |
| 6 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 puddle | amod |
| 7 | puddle | puddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 touched | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 touched | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 touched | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 touched | advmod |
| 14 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 puddle | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mud | det |
| 16 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 touched | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 puddle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | queen | the ugly puddle | safely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not touch | past · perfect · passive | the ugly puddle not said here | queen's feet | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer mud=Result |
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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