Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 59

What a fine dinner they would be for a starving horse!

Who acts: fine dinner · What happens: starve, be

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 (fine dinner), 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 dinner	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dinner	det
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dinner	amod
4	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 horse	nsubj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 horse	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 horse	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 horse	cop
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 horse	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 horse	det
10	starving	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 horse	amod
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 horse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	gerund							tree rules
2	is	would	what fine dinner					for a starving horse	tree rules

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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