Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 43

At last he sold all that he had, except his horse, and went to live in a little hut on the hill-side.

Who acts: knight · What happens: sell, have, go, live · To what, where: all, last, horse, little hut

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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sold	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	nsubj
4	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sold	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 had	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sold	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 horse	punct
10	except	except	ADP	_	12 horse	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 horse	nmod:poss
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sold	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 live	mark
17	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 went	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 hut	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hut	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hut	amod
21	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 live	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	26 side	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 side	det
24	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 side	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 hill	punct
26	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 live	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sell	past	knight	all	last		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at last=Asset
2	have	past	knight	knight's horse			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
3	go	past	knight not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	live	to-infinitive	knight not said here		a little hut	on the hill side	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location

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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