Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 73

When they passed through the gate, they saw the old horse nibbling at the vine.

Who acts: judges, old horse · What happens: pass, see, nibble · To what, where: gate, 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: who acts (judges, old horse), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 passed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	advcl
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 gate	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gate	det
6	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horse	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 horse	amod
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
13	nibbling	nibble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 horse	acl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 vine	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 vine	det
16	vine	vine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nibbling	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	judges = judge		the gate		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through gate=Location
2	see	past	judges = judge	the old horse			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus
3	nibble	gerund	the old horse not said here			at the vine	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at vine=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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