Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 25

He was not afraid, for he had all faith in his father's skill.

Who acts: boy · What happens: not be, have · To what, where: faith, skill

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 (boy), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 afraid	advmod
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 had	case
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 faith	det
10	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 skill	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 skill	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 father	case
15	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 faith	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	boy					afraid property	tree rules
2	have	past	boy	all faith		boy's father's skill			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=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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