Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 35
She lies buried now in a little church-yard by the sea, not far from her old home.
Who acts: sea · What happens: bury · To what, where: name
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 (sea), 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 | 3 buried | nsubj |
| 2 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 buried | aux:pass |
| 3 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 buried | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 yard | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 yard | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 yard | amod |
| 8 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 yard | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 church | punct |
| 10 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buried | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buried | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 far | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 far | advmod |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 buried | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 home | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 home | nmod:poss |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 home | amod |
| 20 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 far | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | present · passive | the sea | name | now | in a little church yard; far property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in yard=Destination |
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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