Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 27
But after many trials, Grace's father climbed upon the wreck, while Grace herself held the boat.
Who acts: father, Grace · What happens: climb, hold · To what, where: wreck, boat
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 (father, Grace), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 climbed | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 trials | case |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 trials | amod |
| 4 | trials | trial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 climbed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 trials | punct |
| 6 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Grace | case |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 climbed | nsubj |
| 9 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 wreck | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wreck | det |
| 12 | wreck | wreck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 climbed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 held | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 held | mark |
| 15 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 held | nsubj |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 Grace | nmod |
| 17 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 climbed | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boat | det |
| 19 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | Grace's father | the wreck | after many trials | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon wreck=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | hold | past | Grace Grace | the boat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |
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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