Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 25

As she walked onward with her train, she asked one of the gen-tle-wom-en, "Who is that brave gen-tle-man who helped us so handsomely?"

Who acts: queen, brave tle man · What happens: walk, ask, be, help · To what, where: one, brave tle man, us · Speech: someone speaks here

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, brave tle man), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 walked	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	advcl
4	onward	onward	ADV	_	3 walked	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 train	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 train	nmod:poss
7	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 asked	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	20 en	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 en	det
14	gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 en	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 gen	punct
16	tle	tle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 en	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 wom	punct
18	wom	wom	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 en	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 wom	punct
20	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 one	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 man	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 man	punct
23	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 man	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 man	cop
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 man	nsubj
26	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
27	gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tle	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 gen	punct
29	tle	tle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 man	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 tle	punct
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	ccomp
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 helped	nsubj
33	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 man	acl:relcl
34	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 helped	obj
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 handsomely	advmod
36	handsomely	handsomely	ADV	_	33 helped	advmod
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 helped	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	walk	past	queen			with queen's train; onward property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	queen	one of the gen tle wom en			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	present		brave tle man			tree rules
4	help in a quote	past	brave tle man		us	handsomely property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary

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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