Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 29
As Tell was turning away from the place, an arrow which he had hidden under his coat dropped to the ground.
Who acts: arrow · What happens: tell, turn away, hide, drop · To what, where: place, arrow, coat, ground · 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 (arrow), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 2 Tell | mark |
| 2 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turning | aux |
| 4 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Tell | ccomp |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 turning | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turning | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 arrow | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 arrow | det |
| 11 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dropped | nsubj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hidden | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hidden | aux |
| 15 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 arrow | acl:relcl |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 coat | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 coat | nmod:poss |
| 18 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hidden | obl |
| 19 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 place | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 ground | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ground | det |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dropped | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | turn away | past · progressive | the place | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from place=Source | ||||
| 3 | hide | past · perfect · passive | a arrow | Gessler's coat | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient under coat=Location | ||||
| 4 | drop | past | a arrow | the place not said here | the ground | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme to ground=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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