Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 28
Not long after that, she sent for Raleigh to come to her pal-ace.
Who acts: queen · What happens: send, come · To what, where: pal ace
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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 sent | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 that | case |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 long | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Raleigh | case |
| 9 | Raleigh | Raleigh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sent | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 ace | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ace | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pal | pal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ace | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 pal | punct |
| 16 | ace | ace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | queen | for Raleigh; long property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | queen not said here | queen's pal ace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ace=Initial_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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