Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 33
She cared most kindly for the ship-wrecked men until the storm had died away and they were strong enough to go to their own homes.
Who acts: Grace, storm, men · What happens: care, wreck, die away, be, go · To what, where: own homes
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 (Grace, storm, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cared | nsubj |
| 2 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 kindly | advmod |
| 4 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 2 cared | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wrecked | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ship | punct |
| 9 | wrecked | wreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 men | amod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cared | obl |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 15 died | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 storm | det |
| 13 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 died | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 died | aux |
| 15 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 cared | advcl |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 died | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 strong | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 strong | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 strong | cop |
| 20 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cared | conj |
| 21 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 20 strong | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 strong | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 homes | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 homes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 homes | amod |
| 27 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 go | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care | past | Grace | for the wrecked men; kindly property | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wreck | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | die away | past · perfect | the storm | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is | past | men = man | enough, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | men = man not said here | men's own homes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_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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