Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 87
The miser hung his head, and grieved to lose his gold; but the people shouted with joy, and the horse was led away to his new stall and a dinner such as he had not had in many a day.
Who acts: miser, people, horse · What happens: hang, grieve, lose, shout, lead away, not have · To what, where: head, gold, horse, new stall
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 (miser, people, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 miser | det |
| 2 | miser | miser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | nsubj |
| 3 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 grieved | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grieved | cc |
| 8 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hung | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 lose | mark |
| 10 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 grieved | xcomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 gold | nmod:poss |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lose | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 shouted | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 shouted | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shouted | nsubj |
| 17 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hung | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 joy | case |
| 19 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shouted | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 led | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 led | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 horse | det |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 led | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 led | aux:pass |
| 25 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hung | conj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 led | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 stall | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 stall | nmod:poss |
| 29 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 stall | amod |
| 30 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 led | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 dinner | cc |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 dinner | det |
| 33 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stall | conj |
| 34 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 39 had | mark |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 such | fixed |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 had | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 had | aux |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 had | advmod |
| 39 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 stall | acl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 day | case |
| 41 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 day | amod |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 day | det |
| 43 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 had | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | the miser | horse's head | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grieve | participle | the miser not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lose | to-infinitive | the miser not said here | horse's gold | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | past | the people | with joy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | lead away | past · passive | the horse | horse's new stall and a dinner | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to stall=Destination | |||
| 6 | not have | past · perfect | horse | horse's new stall and a dinner not said here | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stall=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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