Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 30
Then, while all the great men and fine ladies of England stood around, the queen made him a knight.
Who acts: great men, queen · What happens: stand around, make · To what, where: knight, man
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 (great men, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 stood | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 men | mark |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 men | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 men | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ladies | cc |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ladies | amod |
| 10 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 men | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 England | case |
| 12 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ladies | nmod |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | around | around | ADV | _ | 13 stood | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 queen | det |
| 17 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stood | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 knight | det |
| 21 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand around | past | all great men and fine ladies of England | then | around property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | make | past | the queen | a knight | man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary knight=Product |
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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