Fifty Famous Stories Retold, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps., sentence 11
The long line of soldiers and horses and cannon stretched for twenty miles.
What happens: stretch · To what, where: cannon
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 3 line | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 line | amod |
| 3 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 soldiers | case |
| 5 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 line | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 horses | cc |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 soldiers | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cannon | cc |
| 9 | cannon | cannon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 soldiers | conj |
| 10 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cannon | acl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 miles | case |
| 12 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 miles | nummod |
| 13 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stretched | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 line | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | participle | cannon not said here | for twenty miles | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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