Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 6
Raleigh was dressed in very fine style, and he wore a beau-ti-ful scar-let cloak thrown over his shoulders.
Who acts: Raleigh, beau · What happens: dress, wear, let, cloak, throw · To what, where: Raleigh, fine style, ti ful let cloak, shoulders
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 (Raleigh, beau), 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 | Raleigh | Raleigh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dressed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | aux:pass |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 style | case |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 fine | advmod |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 style | amod |
| 7 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dressed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wore | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wore | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wore | nsubj |
| 11 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cloak | det |
| 13 | beau | beau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cloak | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 beau | punct |
| 15 | ti | ti | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cloak | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ti | punct |
| 17 | ful | ful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cloak | amod |
| 18 | scar | scar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 let | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 scar | punct |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 cloak | amod |
| 21 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wore | obj |
| 22 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 cloak | acl |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 shoulders | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 25 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 thrown | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | Raleigh | fine style | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wear | past | Raleigh | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | let | participle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | cloak | beau | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | throw | participle | a ti ful let cloak not said here | Raleigh's shoulders | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over shoulder=Destination |
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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