Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 25
At last they were close to the rock, and now they were in greater danger than before.
Who acts: men · What happens: be · To what, where: last, greater danger
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Grace Darling.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 close | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 close | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 close | cop |
| 5 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 rock | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rock | det |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 close | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 danger | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 danger | cc |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 danger | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 danger | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 danger | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 danger | case |
| 15 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 danger | amod |
| 16 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 close | conj |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 before | case |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 danger | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 close | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | men = man | last | to the rock; close property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | men = man | greater danger | now | 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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