Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 36
Every year many people go there to see her grave; and there a mon-u-ment has been placed in honor of the brave girl.
Who acts: many people · What happens: go, see, place, honor · To what, where: grave, u ment, honor, brave girl
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 (many people), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 many | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 grave | nmod:poss |
| 10 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 placed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 placed | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 placed | expl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 ment | det |
| 15 | mon | mon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 u | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 mon | punct |
| 17 | u | u | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ment | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 u | punct |
| 19 | ment | ment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 placed | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 placed | aux:pass |
| 22 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 go | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 honor | case |
| 24 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 placed | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 girl | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 girl | det |
| 27 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 girl | amod |
| 28 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 honor | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | many people | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | many people not said here | name's grave | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grave=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | place | present · perfect · passive | a u ment | honor of the brave girl; there | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in honor=Destination | ||||
| 4 | honor | the brave girl | nom honor «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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