Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 34
He ran into his garden, which was not far away, and soon came back with a long grape-vine in his hands.
Who acts: rope, garden · What happens: run, not be, come back · To what, where: garden
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rope, garden), 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 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 garden | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 garden | nmod:poss |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 away | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 away | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 away | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 away | advmod |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 away | advmod |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 garden | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 came | advmod |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 vine | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 vine | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 vine | amod |
| 20 | grape | grape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 vine | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 grape | punct |
| 22 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hands | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hands | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 vine | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | rope | into rope's garden result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into garden=Result | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | rope's garden | away, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come back | past | rope not said here | with a long grape vine in rope's hands; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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