Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 1
A great army was marching into Swit-zer-land.
Who acts: great army · What happens: march · To what, where: Swit zer land
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Arnold Winkelried.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great army), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 army | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 army | amod |
| 3 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marching | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 marching | aux |
| 5 | marching | march | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 7 | Swit | Swit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 land | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Swit | punct |
| 9 | zer | zer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 land | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 zer | punct |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marching | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 marching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | past · progressive | a great army | into Swit zer land result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into land=Result |
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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