Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 5

He stood up straight with folded arms, and laughed at the swinging cap.

Who acts: man · What happens: stand up, fold, laugh, swing · To what, where: swinging cap

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 (man), 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	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 stood	compound:prt
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 arms	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 arms	case
6	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 arms	amod
7	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 laughed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 laughed	cc
10	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 cap	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cap	det
13	swinging	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 cap	amod
14	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laughed	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	man		with folded arms	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fold	participle				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	laugh	past	man not said here	the swinging cap		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	swing	gerund				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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