Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 38
It is a figure carved in stone of a woman lying at rest, with a boat's oar held fast in her right hand.
Who acts: ment, woman · What happens: be, carve, lie, hold · To what, where: figure, stone, rest, oar, right hand
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 (ment, woman), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 figure | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 figure | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 figure | det |
| 4 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 figure | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 stone | case |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carved | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 woman | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stone | nmod |
| 11 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 woman | acl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 rest | case |
| 13 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lying | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 oar | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 oar | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 boat | det |
| 17 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 oar | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 boat | case |
| 19 | oar | oar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carved | obl |
| 20 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 oar | acl |
| 21 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 held | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hand | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 24 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hand | amod |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 held | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 figure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | ment | a figure | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carve | participle | a figure not said here | stone of a woman | with a boat's oar | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in stone=Destination | |||
| 3 | lie | gerund | a woman not said here | rest | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at rest=Location | ||||
| 4 | hold | participle | a boat's oar not said here | woman's right hand | fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=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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