Fifty Famous Stories Retold, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps., sentence 12

When they came to a steep place where there seemed to be no way to go farther, the trum-pets sounded "Charge!"

Who acts: miles, trum pets · What happens: come, seem, be, go, sound · To what, where: steep place, way, Charge

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: who acts (miles, trum pets), 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 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sounded	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 place	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 place	det
6	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 place	amod
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 seemed	advmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 seemed	advmod
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 place	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	14 way	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 way	cop
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seemed	xcomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 go	mark
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 way	acl
17	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 go	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pets	det
20	trum	trum	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pets	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 trum	punct
22	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sounded	nsubj
23	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Charge	punct
25	Charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sounded	obj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 Charge	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Charge	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	miles = mile		a steep place		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
2	seem	past			there		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive		no way			tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive				far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sound	past	the trum pets	Charge			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location charge=Theme

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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