Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 10
As they moved and kept close together, nothing could be seen of them but their spears and shields and shining armor.
Who acts: soldiers · What happens: move, keep, see, shine · To what, where: nothing, armor
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 (soldiers), 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 | _ | 3 moved | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 kept | cc |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 moved | conj |
| 6 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kept | xcomp |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 close | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seen | punct |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seen | aux:pass |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 moved | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seen | obl:agent |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 spears | cc |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 spears | nmod:poss |
| 17 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 them | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 shields | cc |
| 19 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spears | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 shining | cc |
| 21 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 seen | conj |
| 22 | armor | armor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shining | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | soldiers = soldier | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | keep | past | soldiers = soldier not said here | close property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | could · passive | soldiers = soldier | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | shine | gerund | soldiers = soldier not said here | armor | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent armor=Theme |
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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