Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 69
She clasped Smith's head with her arms.
Who acts: Po · What happens: clasp · To what, where: head
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 (Po), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 clasped | nsubj |
| 2 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Smith | case |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 clasped | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 arms | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arms | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 clasped | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 clasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clasp | past | Po | Smith's head | with Po's arms | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Patient with arm=Instrument |
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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