Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 42

But the knight, when he grew older, cared no more to ride into battle; he cared no more to do brave deeds; he thought of nothing but gold; he became a miser.

Who acts: knight · What happens: grow, care, ride, do, think, become · To what, where: more, battle, brave deeds, miser

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 (knight), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 grew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knight	det
3	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grew	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grew	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 grew	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 grew	nsubj
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 grew	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cared	punct
10	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grew	conj
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 cared	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 ride	mark
14	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cared	advcl
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 battle	case
16	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ride	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 cared	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cared	nsubj
19	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grew	parataxis
20	no	no	ADV	_	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 cared	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 do	mark
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 cared	advcl
24	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 deeds	amod
25	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 do	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 thought	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 thought	nsubj
28	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cared	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 nothing	case
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 thought	obl
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 gold	cc
32	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 nothing	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 became	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 became	nsubj
35	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grew	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 miser	det
37	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 became	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the knight			old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	care	past	the knight not said here	more			tree rules
3	ride	to-infinitive	the knight not said here		battle		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into battle=Trajectory
4	care	past	knight	more			tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	knight not said here	brave deeds			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality
6	think speech: other	past	knight			of nothing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	become	past	knight	a miser			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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