Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 34
All this happened a long time ago, but the name of Grace Darling will never be forgotten.
Who acts: this · What happens: happen, not forget, name · To what, where: name, Grace Darling
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 (this), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 happened | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 forgotten | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 forgotten | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 name | det |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 forgotten | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Darling | case |
| 13 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Darling | compound |
| 14 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 name | nmod |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 forgotten | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 forgotten | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 18 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 happened | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | this | ago property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not forget | future · passive | the name of Grace Darling | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | name | Grace Darling | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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