Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 51
So the brave old horse was turned out to find what he could among the rocks on the barren hill-side.
What happens: turn out, find · To what, where: brave old horse
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: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 turned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 3 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 horse | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 horse | amod |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | aux:pass |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 turned | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 turned | advcl |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 find | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 could | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 rocks | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rocks | det |
| 16 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 find | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 side | det |
| 19 | barren | barren | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 side | amod |
| 20 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 side | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 hill | punct |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rocks | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn out | past · passive | the brave old horse | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | among the rocks on the barren hill side | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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