Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 56
The gates were wide open; the poor beast could roam where he pleased.
Who acts: gates, poor beast · What happens: be, roam
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 (gates, poor beast), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gates | det |
| 2 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 open | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 open | cop |
| 4 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 open | advmod |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 roam | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beast | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beast | amod |
| 9 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 roam | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 roam | aux |
| 11 | roam | roam | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 open | conj |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 pleased | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pleased | nsubj |
| 14 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 roam | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the gates | open property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | roam | could | the poor beast | pleased property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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