Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 74
"Ha!" cried one, "it is the miser's steed.
Who acts: place · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: one, steed · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (place), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 2 | Ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 5 cried | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ha | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 cried | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 steed | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 steed | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 steed | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 steed | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 miser | det |
| 12 | miser | miser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 steed | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 miser | case |
| 14 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | one | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | place | the miser's steed | 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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