Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 9
Grace was the daughter of the light-house keeper, and she had lived by the sea as long as she could re-mem-ber.
Who acts: Grace · What happens: be, live, re-mem-ber · To what, where: daughter
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), 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 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 daughter | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 daughter | det |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 keeper | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 keeper | det |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 light | punct |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keeper | compound |
| 10 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lived | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lived | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lived | aux |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 daughter | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lived | obl |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 long | advmod |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 lived | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 re-mem-ber | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 re-mem-ber | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 re-mem-ber | aux |
| 24 | re-mem-ber | re-mem-ber | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 long | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 daughter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Grace | the daughter | of the house keeper | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | past · perfect | Grace | the daughter not said here | by the sea; long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme daughter=Location | |||
| 3 | re-mem-ber | could | Grace | tree rules |
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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