Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 1
The people of Swit-zer-land were not always free and happy as they are to-day.
Who acts: people · What happens: not be, be
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of William Tell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 free | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 4 | Swit | Swit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 land | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Swit | punct |
| 6 | zer | zer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 land | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 zer | punct |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 people | nmod |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 free | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 free | advmod |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 free | advmod |
| 12 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 happy | cc |
| 14 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 free | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 day | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 day | cop |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 to | punct |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 happy | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 free | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the people of Swit zer land | always, free property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the people of Swit zer land not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | people | as day | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/23/1/