Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 12
Gessler knew this, and so he thought of a cruel plan to make the hunter's own skill bring him to grief.
Who acts: Gessler, own skill · What happens: know, think, make, bring · To what, where: this, own skill, Gessler, grief · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Gessler, own skill), 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 | Gessler | Gessler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 knew | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thought | cc |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 thought | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 plan | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 plan | det |
| 11 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 plan | amod |
| 12 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hunter | det |
| 16 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 skill | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 hunter | case |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 skill | amod |
| 19 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 make | xcomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bring | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 grief | case |
| 23 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Gessler | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Gessler | of a cruel plan | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | the hunter's own skill | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bring | infinitive | the hunter's own skill not said here | Gessler | grief | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to grief=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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