Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 61
A large stone was brought in, and Smith was made to lie down with his head on it.
Who acts: Smith · What happens: bring in, make, lie down · To what, where: large stone, Smith, stone
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 (Smith), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stone | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stone | amod |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux:pass |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 brought | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 9 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 brought | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 lie | mark |
| 13 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 made | xcomp |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 lie | compound:prt |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lie | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lie | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in | past · passive | a large stone | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | |||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | Smith | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lie down | to-infinitive | Smith not said here | stone | with Smith's head | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=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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