Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 30
"Fellow!" cried Gessler, "what mean you with this second arrow?"
Who acts: Fellow · What happens: cry, mean · To what, where: you · 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 (Fellow), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fellow | punct |
| 2 | Fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fellow | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fellow | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Gessler | Gessler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mean | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 mean | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 mean | obj |
| 10 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cried | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 mean | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 arrow | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 arrow | det |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 arrow | amod |
| 15 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mean | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Fellow | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present | Fellow not said here | you | with this second arrow | 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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