Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 7
As he passed along, he found it hard work to keep from stepping in the mud, and soiling his hand-some new shoes.
Who acts: beau · What happens: pass along, find, keep, step, soil · To what, where: cloak, mud, hand
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 (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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 passed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | advcl |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | obj |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 work | amod |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 keep | mark |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 found | advcl |
| 13 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 14 stepping | mark |
| 14 | stepping | step | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 keep | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 mud | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mud | det |
| 17 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stepping | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 soiling | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 soiling | cc |
| 20 | soiling | soil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 found | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hand | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 soiling | obj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 hand | punct |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 shoes | det |
| 25 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 shoes | amod |
| 26 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 soiling | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass along | past | beau | along property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | beau | cloak | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme work=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | beau not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | step | gerund | beau not said here | the mud | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mud=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | soil | gerund | beau not said here | beau's hand | tree rules |
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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